overshoot
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1. overshoot - Noun
2. overshoot - Verb
Meaning
To shoot over or beyond.
To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth.
To fly beyond the mark.
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One could not overshoot a planet's carrying capacity without disaster following-that was what Earth's history since the nineteenth century existed to prove.
If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens.
People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.
Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and hopelessness - only to overshoot into quaking, quivering anxiety.
The plan overshoots its aim
Braking could cause a chasing aircraft to overshoot and present itself as a target for the Harrier it was chasing, a combat technique formally developed by the USMC for the Harrier in the early 1970s.