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overcancel en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + cancel.

Meanings

1. To cancel too many or too forcefully.
   • Don't overcancel our FDCs. Don't obliterate with felt-tipped markers. 1995, The American philatelist - Volume 109, Issues 1-6, page 418:
   • The self-diffusivities of a rod, in general, decrease with the concentration because of the rod entanglement and hydrodynamic interaction, but the excluded volume effect in the polarized scattering largely cancels (and sometimes overcancels) the decrease. 2012, Akira Onuki, Kyozi Kawasaki, Dynamics and Patterns in Complex Fluids:
   • Note that there can still be feedback, however, if the gain is so high as to "overcancel" the input signal with the higher level output. 1970, 1970, Amateur Radio - Volume 26, page 58:

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Deriveds

overcancellation