to overshoot

Examples

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• Direct-drive electrical systems are fast, all right, but they tend to jitter, overshoot, jerk out of control, and fall off the edge.

  Academic text (2005)

• It's a problem because even if you decrease global population considerably, you will still have overshoot.

  Blog text (13)

• You have that, that and a lot of times we overshoot thinking that that is going to be the best way to go about things.

• Being able to show the space between the bird and the castle when you overshoot is essential to the learning experience.

  Blog text (32)

• Remember, if we overshoot, there's no coming back.

  Mission to Mars (2000)

• "Hey, you're going to overshoot if you keep coming at that speed."

  Fiction book (1999)

• So if you make a premature attempt at revolution and you overshoot the mark, then the attempt tends to collapse under its own weight.

• But falling masses of gas may overshoot and descend farther into the solar interior.

  Academic text (1991)

• "In the absence of other negative feedback mechanisms, populations grow exponentially until they overshoot the carrying capacity."

  Blog text (1)

• What I'm saying is that, if we overshoot this by even the smallest integer, we're dealing with concentrations with extraordinary levels of toxicity so--

  The Incredible Hulk (2008)

Antonyms

U

to undershoot

1 6.3

Fail to reach a target by falling short

Phrasal Verbs

O

to overshoot the budget

4.3

Spend more money than planned for a project

How Far

to overrun

4 5.3

to exceed

255 4.1

to overshoot

6 4.6

to go past

16 1.0

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