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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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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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. Kim Stanley Robinson

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. Brad Bird

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves. Dolly Parton

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. Scott Stossel

The plan overshoots its aim Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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