Undershoot
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Undershoot is a verb meaning To shoot not far enough or not well enough.
Meaning
To shoot not far enough or not well enough.
More Meanings
- To fail to go far enough when trying to reach a goal.
- (by extension) To underestimate.
- To record too little photographic footage.
- The situation where a neuron's membrane potential falls below the normal resting potential.
- An instance of undershooting.
Example Sentences
Just weeks ago, however, America’s top epidemiologists badly undershot how quickly COVID-19 would spread.
The first day, I think I undershot how much I should've been drinking, because it had almost no effect on me.
In this model, a fiscal or saving shock in one country leads to an overshoot of the real exchange rate between the two countries and of the real interest rate in the other country, and an undershoot of the real interest rate in the first country.
Word Forms
- undershoots
- undershooting
- undershot
Antonyms for undershoot
Common opposites include overshoot.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include underreach, undershift, underhit, underdo, underspeak, underrun.
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