Oversteer
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Oversteer is a noun meaning to lose the control of one's vehicle in a corner due to rear wheels sliding and not following the front wheels.
Meaning
to lose the control of one's vehicle in a corner due to rear wheels sliding and not following the front wheels.
More Meanings
- to steer a vehicle too far in one direction.
- The condition in which the rear wheels of a car don't follow the desired curve while cornering, the rear wheels losing a degree of traction and so skidding off the required line into a spin.
Word Forms
- oversteers
- oversteering
- oversteered
Antonyms for oversteer
Common opposites include understeer.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include understeer, overshift, overdrift, overdeviation, backover, skewing.
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