an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt
<noun.act> [ verb ]
shoot beyond or over (a target)
<verb.competition>
aim too high
<verb.cognition> The plan overshoots its aim
Overshoot \O`ver*shoot"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Overshot}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Overshooting}.] 1. To shoot over or beyond; to miss; as, to overshoot a mark; to overshoot the green in golf. ``Not to overshoot his game.'' --South.
2. Hence: To go beyond an intended point or limit; as, to overshoot the runway in landing an airplane; to overshoot the endpoint in a titration. [PJC]
2. To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond. --Hartle.
3. To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth. --Cowper.
{To overshoot one's self}, to venture too far; to assert too much.
Overshoot \O`ver*shoot"\, v. i. To fly beyond the mark. --Collier.
As of now we would overshoot (our target of 4.7 per cent).
"That is no reason for seeking an overshoot in the opposite direction" now, he said.
Pilot error and bad weather caused a Philippine Airlines plane to overshoot the runway and slam into a busy highway last July, killing eight people, according to a report released Monday.
And although currency markets usually "overshoot" to some degree, a fast-rising currency can begin to feed on itself and accelerate as it climbs through important levels on traders' charts.
There is a longer-term danger, too: where prices are based on expectations rather than on current returns, they tend to overshoot once any move is established, as every schoolboy must know by now.
The deficit itself looks set to overshoot the 1994 budget projections of L144,000bn and reach L160,000bn, over 10 per cent of GDP.