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Definition: Undershoot |
UndershootVerb1. Fall short of (the runway) in a landing; "The plane undershot the runway". 2. Shoot short of or below (a target). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Electrical Engineering | The difference in temperature between the temperature a process goes to, below the set point, after the cooling cycle is turned off and the set point temperature. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A transient change in output voltage, below output accuracy limits, that can occur when a power supply is turned on or off, or when there is a step change in line or load. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A form of transient distortion of a step or pulse signal in which the response makes a temporary excursion before the main transition and in the opposite direction. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Antonym: overshoot (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Undershoot |
| Specialty definitions using "undershoot": DANGLING NODE. (references) |
| "Undershoot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Undershoot" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 37.5% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "undershoot": undershoot the runway. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "undershoot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стрелям под целта, улучвам под целта, кацам преждевременно, не улучвам пистата. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 下射. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | undershoot, under-oscillation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uitslingering in negatieve richting, onderoscillatie, doorschieten in negatieve richting. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | alitus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sous-oscillation, sous-dépassement, atterrir avant d'atteindre la piste. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Unterschwingung. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατάπτωση (decadence, decadency, depression, prostration, sag, slump, subsidence), υπέκταση, υποτίναξη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rövidre jövetel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sottoscillazione. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ershootunday sub-oscilação, subimpulso, distorção por supermodulação. (various references) недоиспользование. (various references) suboscilación, subimpulso, subdisparo, impulso corto. (various references) undersläng. (various references) kısa dalmak (undershoot the runway), inişte piste değip yeniden havalandırmak (undershoot the runway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "undershoot": undershooting, undershoots. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-n-o-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: outsnored, tournedos, undershot. | |
-2 letters: duotones, enshroud, honoured, hounders, outdoers, outshone, outsnore, roundest, southern, southron, thunders, tonsured, unhorsed, unrooted, unsorted. | |
-3 letters: dehorns, dehorts, detours, dourest, drouths, duotone, enduros, enroots, honored, honours, hooters, hornets, hotrods, hounder, hunters, onerous, onshore, orotund, outdoer, outdoes, outdone, outrode, redouts, reshoot, resound, rodents, roosted, rousted, sheroot, shooter, shorted, shorten, shouted. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-n-o-o-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: undershoots. | |
+2 letters: southernwood. | |
+3 letters: boustrophedon, southernwoods, undershooting, unorthodoxies. | |
+4 letters: boustrophedons. | |
+5 letters: boustrophedonic, echinodermatous, photoreductions. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 64 65 72 73 68 6F 6F 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -.. . .-. ... .... --- --- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01110011 01101000 01101111 01101111 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n d e r s h o o t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0064 0065 0072 0073 0068 006F 006F 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55807071848574818186 |
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