オーバーシュート

オーバーシュート

Japanese

Etymology

From English overshoot. The “sudden increase” sense is Wasei eigo (和製英語).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [o̞ːba̠ːɕɨᵝːto̞]

Noun

オーバーシュート • (ōbāshūto) 

1. (finance) exceeding a benchmark price, exceeding a valuation estimate, overshooting the mark
2. a sudden increase, an eruption (This is a hot sense, kept provisionally)
   • 2020 March 19, “Bakuhatsu kakudai ‘ōbāshūto’ keikai [Vigilance toward sudden ‘overshoot’ expansion]”, in Mainichi Shimbun‎:

     「今後(こんご)、 感染源(かんせんげん)が分(わ)からない患者(かんじゃ)が継続的(けいぞくてき)に増(ぞう)加(か)し全国(ぜんこく)に拡大(かくだい)すれば、 どこかの地(ち)域(いき)を発端(ほったん)として爆発的(ばくはつてき)な感染(かんせん)拡大(かくだい) （オーバーシュート） を伴(ともな)う大(だい)規(き)模(ぼ)流行(りゅうこう)につながりかねない」とする新(あら)たな提言(ていげん)をまとめた。

     “Kongo, kansengen ga wakaranai kanja ga keizokuteki ni zōka-shi zenkoku ni kakudai sureba, doko ka no chiiki o hottan toshite bakuhatsuteki-na kansen kakudai (ōbāshūto) o tomonau daikibo ryūkō ni tsunagari kanenai” to suru arata-na teigen o matometa.

     “Hereafter, without understanding the sources of the infection, if patients continue to spread throughout the country we may see an explosive increase (overshoot) in any region, with the possibility of large-scale prevalence,” the new proposal concludes.

   • 2020 March 25, “‘Ōbāshūto no hajimari no kanōsei’ Tōkyō-to de arata ni 40-nin chō kansen no imi suru koto wa. Senmon no mikata [‘Potentially the explosion has started’ The significance of Tokyo's 40 new highly contagious cases. Expert viewpoint]”, in FNN‎:

     東京(とうきょう)で爆発的(ばくはつてき)感染(かんせん)オーバーシュートの懸(け)念(ねん)が高(たか)まっている。 東京都(とうきょうと)で 25(にじゅうご) 日(にち)新(あら)たに 40人(よんじゅうにん)以上(いじょう)の感染(かんせん)が確認(かくにん)された。

     Tōkyō de bakuhatsuteki kansen ōbāshūto no kenen ga takamatte-iru. Tōkyō-to de nijūgo nichi arata ni yonjū-nin ijō no kansen ga kakunin sareta.

     In Tokyo concern is rising over an explosive increase in infection. In the Tokyo metro on the 25th more than forty new cases have been confirmed.

3. (typography) an overshoot, the extension of a character higher or lower than other comparably sized characters

Related terms

• 爆発(ばくはつ) (bakuhatsu, “explosion, eruption”)
• 拡大(かくだい) (kakudai, “increase, expansion”)