Sekirov Dictionary

overrange

verb 4
noun 2
adjective 1
forms 5

verb4

•
To respond to input beyond the designated or expected range; to provide an overrange.
- The unit is available with full scale, TTL compatible, frequency pulse output ranges of 2, 20, 200 and 1000 kHz and can overrange to 150%. — 1971
•
To produce input beyond the range that an instrument is designed to measure or handle.
- Where wide fluctuation of flow is encountered, it is better to keep the reading on the chart than to overrange the pen and estimate the flow. — 1954
•
To range too far or too much.
- Occasionally pressure springs are accidentally overranged. Some overranging can be corrected by recalibration, but many times the overranging will be to such an extent that it is impossible to do so. — 1956
To range over.

noun2

•
Input to an instrument beyond the range of values it is designed to handle.
- 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 . — 1962
•
The amount by which an instrument can handle input outside the designated or expected range.
- It has an overrange to 100,000 counts and uses a current-balancing technique. — 2013

adjective1

•
Beyond the expected or allowed range.
- Accidental overvoltage or overrange protection is provided by fast recovery diodes and zener clamps. This facilitates measuring repetitive pulse waveforms where a portion of the signal is overrange. — 1972

forms

overranged · overranging · overranges · more overrange · most overrange

This dictionary works without the internet: on your phone · in Chrome