undershoot
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.65 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To underestimate.
verb
To record too little photographic footage.
noun
The situation where a neuron's membrane potential falls below the normal resting potential.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The first day, I think I undershot how much I should've been drinking, because it had almost no effect on me."
- "Just weeks ago, however, America’s top epidemiologists badly undershot how quickly COVID-19 would spread."
- "In this model, a fiscal or saving shock in one country leads to an overshoot of the real exchange rate between the two countries and of the real interest rate in the other country, and an undershoot of the real interest rate in the first country."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *h₂én Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi ? Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwdeti? Proto-Germanic *skuttōnąbf.? Proto-Germanic *skeutaną Proto-West Germanic *skeutan Old English sċēotan Middle English schoten English shoot English undershoot From under- + shoot.