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Plural of overshoot

regular plural

The plural of overshoot is overshoots.

Forms of overshoot

Singularovershoot /ˈəʊ.və.ʃuːt/
Pluralovershoots
Countablecountable and uncountable

Overshoots in a sentence

  • The amount a letter overshoots is based on the design, but your eye shouldn’t notice it.2019, Reece Patton, Formatting for Print
  • The ‘cultural turn’ which is even otherwise unjustifiable because it both misshoots and overshoots the target, as I will try to argue, makes matters worse for TS.2005, P.P Giridhar, Translatology: Interrogative Translatology: Interrogative Musings on the Grid. From the entry misshoot

Meaning of overshoot

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

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Questions about the plural of overshoot

What is the plural of overshoot?
The plural of overshoot is overshoots.
Is overshoot countable?
Overshoot is a countable and uncountable noun.

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