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overscroll

overscroll noun: a feature where content being scrolled goes beyond its end point and bounces back, giving the user visual feedback that the end has been reached.

Noun

overscroll (uncountable)

  1. A feature where content being scrolled goes beyond its end point and bounces back, giving the user visual feedback that the end has been reached.
    • Disabling overscroll
      When you scroll a web page in the Android browser or mobile Safari, you'll notice that you can scroll past the end of the page. When you let go, the page springs back to the end position.2014, Jacob Seidelin, HTML5 Games: Creating Fun with HTML5, CSS3 and WebGL, page 71
    • You can also customize the overscroll effect of a ScrollView to mimic a behavior native to the corresponding platform (which still looks noticeably different from native components anyway, despite being similar in concept).2015, Mark Vasilkov, Kivy Blueprints, page 104

Verb

overscroll (third-person singular simple present overscrolls, present participle overscrolling, simple past and past participle overscrolled)

  1. To perform this kind of scrolling and bouncing effect.
    • A fling gesture can overscroll the content, before returning the content to the correct position.2015, Matthew Leibowitz, Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook, page 302

Forms of overscroll

third-person singular presentoverscrolls
present participleoverscrolling
past participleoverscrolled
pastoverscrolled

Origin of overscroll

From over- + scroll.

Questions about overscroll

What does overscroll mean?
Overscroll means a feature where content being scrolled goes beyond its end point and bounces back, giving the user visual feedback that the end has been reached.
What part of speech is overscroll?
Overscroll can be a noun or a verb.

Words near overscroll in the dictionary

  1. overscreens
  2. overscribble
  3. overscribbled
  4. overscribbles
  5. overscribbling
  6. overscroll
  7. overscrolled
  8. overscrolling
  9. overscrolls
  10. overscrub
  11. overscrubbed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overscroll (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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