overshoots

Exceeds the mark

Overshoots means to go past an intended target or limit.

A plane overshoots the runway by landing too far along it.

An economy overshoots when indicators swing beyond sustainable levels before correcting.

You overshoot a budget by spending more than planned: We overshot our estimate by twenty percent.

The noun overshoot names such an excess.

trajectory

overreaches

Exceeds one's capabilities

overjumps · clears · leaps · bounds · overflies · transcends · outstrips · outpaces · misses · bypasses

targets

misses

Fails to connect

goals · benchmarks · projections · quotas · deadlines · budgets · forecasts · expectations · limits · thresholds

control-systems

feedback

Returned response data

correction · setpoint · settling · transient · calibration · PID · regulation · stability · ringing · compensation

aviation

runway

Paved path for planes

braking · threshold · overruns · taxiway · approach · descent · glide · airstrip · tarmac · wheels

economics

inflation

Sustained price level increase

overheating · monetary · overvaluation · speculation · boom · correction · adjustment · rebounds · volatility · markets

Categories
Opposites
target accuracy

overshootsundershoots

Falls short of target

falls short · holds back · underestimates · underperforms · restrains

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