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Meanings of overspeed in English

Russian
превышение скорости
Spanish
velocidad excesiva
Catalan
velocitat excessiva

Speed or velocity in excess of a safe limit.

        превышение скорости
        Russian
        превышение скорости в аэронавтике

        Aircraft flight condition when the airspeed exceeds a safe limitation.

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                превышение скорости в аэронавтике
                Synonyms
                Examples for "speeding"
                Examples for "speeding"
                1
                I immediately called the Garda lo-call speeding number and received no answer.
                The Irish Times
                2
                MP's criticise the swift law change to validate thousands of speeding tickets.
                Radio NZ
                3
                No doubt I broke several traffic laws, speeding to our family doctor.
                Fireflies
                4
                Traffic data showed average speeds increased and extreme speeding became more common.
                Reuters
                5
                There's been a lot of debate over the past week about speeding.
                Radio NZ
                1
                The court heard that excessive speed and tiredness were to blame.
                Radio NZ
                2
                No mechanical failure, no excessive speed, no booze, no bad weather.
                The Shining
                3
                Authorities ruled the crash was caused by excessive speed and not a mechanical failure.
                Reuters
                4
                The trouble is not in excessive speed, and speed ordinances will not remedy the trouble.
                Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile / Being a Desultory Narrativ...
                5
                An investigation by the NTSB determined excessive speed was the main cause of the accident.
                Reuters
                1
                She could see their hulls glow white-hot as they tried dumping excess speed.
                Earth strike: star carrier: book one
                2
                However, Sunderland was later hit with a five minute penalty for using excess speed!
                The South African
                3
                So the probe had safely entered the atmosphere, and got rid of its excess speed.
                The Fountains of Paradise
                4
                Another man was caught driving at excess speed, and his license was suspended for 28 days.
                Radio NZ
                5
                An excess speed warning sounds.
                Reuters
                1
                They are clean, mean, high tech machines which are more than capable of exceeding the legal speed limit on any Irish road.
                The Irish Times
                Usage of overspeed in English
                1
                This is almost always a good thing because the airplane won't allow the pilot to overspeed, stall, overbank or overload the airplane.
                Wired
                2
                How fortunate, Bowman thought, that it had not started to overspeed; but that was now one of the least of his worries.
                2001. A Space Odyssey
                3
                The airplane computers "think" the aircraft is overspeeding and therefore continue to increase the airplane's angle of attack.
                Wired