overcancel
English
Etymology
over- + cancel
Verb
overcancel (third-person singular simple present overcancels, present participle overcancelling or (US) overcanceling, simple past and past participle overcancelled or (US) overcanceled)
- To cancel too many or too forcefully.
- 1970, 1970, Amateur Radio - Volume 26, page 58:
- 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.
- 1995, The American philatelist - Volume 109, Issues 1-6, page 418:
- Don't overcancel our FDCs. Don't obliterate with felt-tipped markers.
- 2012, Akira Onuki, Kyozi Kawasaki, Dynamics and Patterns in Complex Fluids:
- 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.