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Definition of Overlength
1. Adjective. Longer than is standard or (context: transportation legal of a vehicle) longer than is allowed. ¹
2. Noun. (context: transportation legal of a vehicle) An excess of length. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overlength
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overlength
Literary usage of Overlength
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Classical Quarterly by Classical Association (Great Britain) (1908)
"The figures for overlength show at a glance how greatly this scansion preponderates
in the principal pauses.1 In the narr, strong caesura overlength is ..."
2. The Story of the Organ by Charles Francis Abdy Williams (1903)
"overlength. The metal pipes on the front of an organ are rarely of their ...
The non-effective portion is called the overlength, the part between it and the ..."
3. American Marine: The Shipping Question in History and Politics by William Wallace Bates (1892)
"A. If there be overlength of vessel the free board found by the foregoing rules
shall be corrected by adding thereto, as inches, one third of the square ..."
4. Biographic Clinics by George Milbry Gould (1906)
"tested a pair of eyes having no astigmatism, and having exactly the same overlength
or myopia. And this astigmatism, or the difference in lengths of the two ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"The causes of overpressure are numerous. Within the school over- length of
individual tasks and overlength of time in school are the important ..."
6. The Westminster Review by John Chapman, Charles William Wason (1829)
"If yes, then by the overlength is created so much needless delay ; and of evil
in that shape, the consequences have been already brought to view. ..."
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