overshoot

Meanings

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

1. To go past something; to go too far.
2. To shoot beyond; to shoot too far to hit something.
3. To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond.
4. To exceed.
5. To venture too far; to overreach (oneself).
6. To record too much photographic footage.

Etymology

From Middle English overshoten, oversheten (“to shoot beyond, shoot past, pour down from above”), perhaps continuing Old English ofersċēotan (“to shoot down”), equivalent to over- + shoot.