overranged

Verb

overrange (third-person singular simple present overranges, present participle overranging, simple past and past participle overranged)

1. To respond to input beyond the designated or expected range; to provide an overrange.
   • The unit is available with full scale, TTL compatible, frequency pulse output ranges of 2, 20, 200 and 1000 kHz and can overrange to 150%.1971, International Journal of Radiation Engineering - Volume 1, Issue 1
2. To produce input beyond the range that an instrument is designed to measure or handle.
   • Where wide fluctuation of flow is encountered, it is better to keep the reading on the chart than to overrange the pen and estimate the flow.1954, Oil and Gas Journal - Volumes 52-53, page 194
3. To range too far or too much.
   • Occasionally pressure springs are accidentally overranged. Some overranging can be corrected by recalibration, but many times the overranging will be to such an extent that it is impossible to do so.1956, Engineering Experiment Station Bulletin - Issues 44-45, page 244
4. To range over.
   • Wherefore as cloud of Ben-more or hawk overranging the mountains, Wherefore in Badenoch drear, in lofty Lochaber, Lochiel , and Knoydart, Moydart, Morrer, Ardgower, and Ardnamurchan, Wandereth he, who should either with Adam be studying logic, Or by the lochside of Rannoch on Katie his rhetoric...1849, Arthur Hugh Clough, The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich: A Long-vacation Pastoral, page 90

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