overcancel
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To cancel too many or too forcefully.
Example Sentences
- "Note that there can still be feedback, however, if the gain is so high as to "overcancel" the input signal with the higher level output."
- "Don't overcancel our FDCs. Don't obliterate with felt-tipped markers."
- "The self-diffusivities of a rod, in general, decrease with the concentration because of the rod entanglement and hydrodynamic interaction, but the excluded volume effect in the polarized scattering largely cancels (and sometimes overcancels) the decrease."
Etymology
From over- + cancel.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over