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overwidth

overwidth adjective: wider than is standard or (transport, law, of a vehicle) wider than is allowed.

Adjective

overwidth (comparative more overwidth, superlative most overwidth)

  1. Wider than is standard or (transport, law, of a vehicle) wider than is allowed.

Noun

overwidth (uncountable)

  1. An excess of width.
    • […] and shall pay not only the amount of the permit fee for overlength, overheight, overwidth or overweight as might be due, but an additional civil penalty of fifty dollars for the first offense, one hundred dollars for the second offense and one hundred fifty dollars for each additional offense...1976, Acts of the Legislature, volume 1, Louisiana, page 445

Forms of overwidth

comparativemore overwidth
superlativemost overwidth

Origin of overwidth

From over- + width.

Questions about overwidth

What does overwidth mean?
Overwidth means wider than is standard or (transport, law, of a vehicle) wider than is allowed.
What part of speech is overwidth?
Overwidth can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near overwidth in the dictionary

  1. overwide
  2. overwiden
  3. overwidened
  4. overwidening
  5. overwidens
  6. overwidth
  7. overwield
  8. overwild
  9. overwilling
  10. overwillingly
  11. overwily

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