Usually means: Exceeding a target or limit.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word overshooting:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. overshooting: Merriam-Webster
  2. overshooting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. overshooting: Vocabulary.com
  4. overshooting: Wordnik
  5. overshooting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. overshooting: Wiktionary
  7. Overshooting, overshooting: Dictionary.com
  8. overshooting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Overshooting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Overshooting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. overshooting: FreeDictionary.org
  12. overshooting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Overshooting: bizterms.net
  3. Overshooting: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. overshooting: Glossary of research economics
  5. Overshooting: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  6. overshooting: Legal dictionary
  7. Overshooting: Financial dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overshooting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overshooting: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overshoot)

noun:  (countable) The amount by which something goes too far.
noun:  (countable, uncountable, ecology) The situation where the population of a species exceeds its environment's carrying capacity.
noun:  (countable, uncountable, typography, design) 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.
verb:  To shoot beyond; to shoot too far to hit something.
verb:  To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond.
verb:  (figurative) To exceed.
verb:  (reflexive) To venture too far; to overreach (oneself).
verb:  To record too much photographic footage.
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