ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. to steer a vehicle too far in one direction.
  2. 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

Antonyms for oversteer

Common opposites include understeer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include understeer, overshift, overdrift, overdeviation, backover, skewing.

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