Usually means: Exceeding a target or limit.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word overshoot:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. overshoot: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. overshoot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overshoot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overshoot: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overshoot: Vocabulary.com
  6. Overshoot, overshoot: Wordnik
  7. overshoot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. overshoot: Wiktionary
  9. overshoot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. overshoot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. overshoot: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. overshoot: Dictionary.com
  13. overshoot: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. overshoot: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Overshoot (aviation), Overshoot (ecology), Overshoot (microwave communication), Overshoot (population), Overshoot (signal), Overshoot (typography), Overshoot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Overshoot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. overshoot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. overshoot: Rhymezone
  19. Overshoot: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. overshoot: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. overshoot: Free Dictionary
  22. overshoot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. overshoot: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. overshoot: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. overshoot: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  2. overshoot: Legal dictionary
  3. overshoot: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overshoot: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. overshoot: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Overshoot: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overshoot, the overshoot: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) The amount by which something goes too far.
noun:  (uncountable, ecology) The situation where the population of a species exceeds its environment's carrying capacity.
noun:  (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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