Can "overtake" be used as a noun?
Overtaking is the noun form of the verb overtake:
an act or the process of moving past another vehicle or person travelling in the same direction - Overtaking on a bend is dangerous. One in ten failed to recognise signs for no overtaking or the national speed limit.
I could find a few usage instances of overtake as a noun, but they appear to be quite rare:
From A collection of technical papers:AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, New Orleans, LA, August 11-13, 1997 -
- An overtake occurs when one aircraft passes alongside, over, or under another aircraft sharing the same trajectory segment. Overtakes in the terminal area are...
From Report of Department of Transportation Air Traffic Control Advisory Committee United States. Dept. of Transportation. Air Traffic Control Advisory Committee 1970:
The current surveillance system in capable of determining when an overtake might occur with sufficient accuracy and in sufficient time so that an approach wave- off ...