overrange
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Input to an instrument beyond the range of values it is designed to handle.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The amount by which an instrument can handle input outside the designated or expected range.
Countable; Uncountable
verb
To range over.
Example Sentences
- "The bellows-type meter can withstand overranges up to the safe working pressure of the housing in either direction without damage or the slightest shift in zero or calibration ."
- "Where there is an overload or overrange condition, all display elements of the Fig. 1-12B meter (except the kQ and MQ indicators) flash repeatedly."
- "This instrument is extremely sensitive to overrange, and care should be taken to avoid this problem."
- "Though digital panel meters commonly offer 100 percent overrange, multi-range, multi-function meters almost never provide more than 40 percent overrange and, on the 1000-V range, most allow no overrange at all."
- "It has an overrange to 100,000 counts and uses a current-balancing technique."
- "Some, but not all, digital implementations permit the upper output limit to exceed the upper range value (provides an overrange) and the lower output limit to be less than the lower range value (provides an underrange)."
Etymology
From over- + range.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over
Usage
Inflected Forms
overranges (plural)
overranges (present, singular)
overranging (participle, present)
overranged (participle, past)
overranged (past)
more overrange (comparative)
most overrange (superlative)