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Definition of Oversets
1. overset [v] - See also: overset
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversets
Literary usage of Oversets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1797)
"Whether, therefore, a solid floats permanently, or oversets when placed on the
surface of a fluid, so that the centre of gravity of the solid and that of ..."
2. The Baptist Quarterly by Baptist Historical Society (1869)
"715) for a very similar purpose, expounds that of Euripides : " For the shipmaster
who, straining the sail-rope of his vessel, gives no way, oversets her, ..."
3. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"... and lowers it to the horizontal position, beyond which it oversets by ...
K, of the tumbler, which it raises and ag;tin oversets, producing once more ..."
4. A Treatise of Mechanics: Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive by Olinthus Gregory (1826)
"... is brought into contact with the tail K of the tumbler, and raises it to the
horizontal position, beyond which it oversets by the acquired motion of the ..."
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