overshoot

1. (countable) The amount by which something goes too far.Examples: "Let's see if we can predict and correct for the overshoot."countable

2. (countable, uncountable, ecology) The situation where the population of a species exceeds its environment's carrying capacity.Examples: "With appropriate choice and action such uncontrolled decline could be avoided; overshoot could instead be resolved by a conscious effort to reduce humanity's demand on the planet."; "Population overshoot is therefore unlikely to yield to management. Rather, the usual suspects will enter the scene and do their thing: starvation, disease, […] violence […] [and] death […]."; "Our core ecological problem is not climate change. It is overshoot, of which global warming is a symptom."countableuncountable

3. (countable, 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.Examples: "The portion resting beyond the capline or baseline is called overshoot."; "The bowl of the D and the O are usually not identical, as most D forms do not have overshoot or undershoot."countableuncountable