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overtilting

overtilting is the present participle and gerund of overtilt.

Meaning of overtilt

Verb

overtilt (third-person singular simple present overtilts, present participle overtilting, simple past and past participle overtilted)

  1. (transitive) To tip over; to upset.
  2. (transitive) To tilt too far.
    • Do not overtilt the patient's head.

Noun

overtilting (uncountable)

  1. Excessive tilting
    • Most saliently, we show that the nature of the chiral anomaly depends crucially on the relative angle between the applied field and the tilt, and that an inversion-asymmetric overtilting can give rise to a chiral charge reversal with violating the conservation of chiral charges known from type-I...2016, M. Udagawa, E.J. Bergholtz, “Field-Selective Anomaly and Chiral Charge Reversal in Type-II Weyl Materials”, in arXiv

Questions about overtilting

What does overtilting mean?
Overtilting means excessive tilting.
What is overtilting the present participle and gerund of?
Overtilting is the present participle and gerund of overtilt.
What part of speech is overtilting?
Overtilting is a noun.

Words near overtilting in the dictionary

  1. overtilled
  2. overtilling
  3. overtills
  4. overtilt
  5. overtilted
  6. overtilting
  7. overtilts
  8. overtime
  9. overtime ban
  10. overtime bans
  11. overtimed

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