overrange

Meanings

Noun

• Input to an instrument beyond the range of values it is designed to handle.
• The amount by which an instrument can handle input outside the designated or expected range.

Verb

• To respond to input beyond the designated or expected range; to provide an overrrange.
• To produce input beyond the range that an instrument is designed to measure or handle.
• To range too far or too much.
• To range over.

Adjective

• Beyond the expected or allowed range.

Origin

• over- + range