Overrange
adj, noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Input to an instrument beyond the range of values it is designed to handle. countable, uncountable
"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 ."
- 2 The amount by which an instrument can handle input outside the designated or expected range. countable, uncountable
"Though digital panel meters commonly offer 100 percent overrange, multi-range, multi-function meters almost never provide more than 40 percent overrange and, on the 1000-V range, most allow no overrange at all."
- 1 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%."
- 2 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."
- 3 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."
- 4 To range over.
"Wherefore as cloud of Ben-more or hawk overranging the mountains, Wherefore in Badenoch drear, in lofty Lochaber, Lochiel , and Knoydart, Moydart, Morrer, Ardgower, and Ardnamurchan, Wandereth he, who should either with Adam be studying logic, Or by the lochside of Rannoch on Katie his rhetoric using;"
- 1 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."
Example
More examples"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 ."
Etymology
From over- + range.
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