Home › Words › O › overspinningoverspinningoverspinning means excessive spinning.EtymologyFrom over- + spinning.nounExcessive spinninge.g.“Here we show that overspinning is always averted once back-reaction from the particle's own gravity is properly taken into account.” — 2015, Marta Colleoni, Leor Barack, Abhay G. Shah, Maarten van de Meent, “Self-force as a cosmic censor in the Kerr overspinning problem”, in arXiv:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.overspin 76% match — An excessive amount of spin applied to a projectile such that its nose does not turn down at the summit of the trajectory. vs overspinning →despinning 70% match — The removal of spin from an object vs overspinning →nonspinning 66% match — Not spinning vs overspinning →multispin 65% match — Involving multiple spins vs overspinning →spinathon 64% match — A long period of spinning. vs overspinning →spins 64% match — vertigo vs overspinning →spinning 62% match — The motion of something that spins. vs overspinning →overtilting 61% match — Excessive tilting vs overspinning →