overcancel

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ cancel.

Verb

overcancel (third-person singular simple present overcancels, present participle (US) overcanceling or (UK) overcancelling, simple past and past participle (US) overcanceled or (UK) overcancelled)

  1. To cancel too many or too forcefully.
    • 1970, 1970, Amateur Radio - Volume 26, page 58:
      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.
    • 1995, The American philatelist - Volume 109, Issues 1-6, page 418:
      Don't overcancel our FDCs. Don't obliterate with felt-tipped markers.
    • 2012, Akira Onuki, Kyozi Kawasaki, Dynamics and Patterns in Complex Fluids:
      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.

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