overshoot

Meanings

Noun

• The amount by which something goes too far.
• When the population of a species exceeds its environment's carrying capacity.
• The portion of a letter extending above the capline of other letters of the same font, or the relative degree of such extent.

Verb

• To go past something; to go too far.
• To shoot beyond; to shoot too far to hit something.
• To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond.
• To exceed.
• To venture too far; to overreach (oneself).

Origin

• over- + shoot