Overshoot is 1) to go further more than necessary or expected; 2) the occurrence of a population or function exceeding the environment’s carrying capacity.
Reference Definition by Medical-dictionary: Generally, any initial change, in response to a sudden step change in some factor, that is greater than the steady-state response to the new level of that factor; common in systems in which inertia or a time lag in negative feedback outweighs any damping that may be present. Changes in a negative direction are sometimes distinguished by the term undershoot, and the two may alternate in an oscillatory fashion, as in the transient oscillations of a pendulum when released from an initial displacement.
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