overrange

plural overranges

1. countableuncountableInput to an instrument beyond the range of values it is designed to handle.

   This instrument is extremely sensitive to overrange, and care should be taken to avoid this problem.

   1997, Norman A. Anderson, Instrumentation for Process Measurement and Control, page 46

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   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 .

   1962, Proceedings of the 1962 Annual Appalachian Gas Measurement Short Course, page 129

   Where there is an overload or overrange condition, all display elements of the Fig. 1-12B meter (except the kQ and MQ indicators) flash repeatedly.

   1994, John D. Lenk, McGraw-Hill electronic testing handbook, page 20

2. countableuncountableThe amount by which an instrument can handle input outside the designated or expected range.

   It has an overrange to 100,000 counts and uses a current-balancing technique.

   2013, Anne Fischer Lent, Practical Applications Circuits Handbook, page 97

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   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.

   1970, EEE: The Magazine of Circuit Design Engineering

   Some, but not all, digital implementations permit the upper output limit to exceed the upper range value (provides an overrange) and the lower output limit to be less than the lower range value (provides an underrange).

   2014, Cecil L. Smith, Control of Batch Processes, page 76

present singular third person overranges · participle present overranging · participle past overranged · past overranged

1. To respond to input beyond the designated or expected range; to provide an overrange.

   Most meters have the ability to overrange and add a partial or “half” digit.

   1999, Clyde F. Coombs, Electronic Instrument Handbook, page 13-29

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   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%.

   1971, International Journal of Radiation Engineering - Volume 1, Issue 1

   As the test light voltage touches terminal "C7", the module should switch, causing the ohmmeter to "overrange" if the meter is in the 1000-2000 ohms position.

   1992, Chilton's General Motors, page 7

2. To produce input beyond the range that an instrument is designed to measure or handle.

   Care must be taken so as not to overrange the instruments

   1989, Aeronautical Note - Issues 57-64, page 2

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   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.

   1954, Oil and Gas Journal - Volumes 52-53, page 194

   In the measurement of water pressure, sudden surges can overrange instrumentation and easily damage it.

   1966, Water & Wastes Engineering, page 75

   The turbulence created under these conditions was found to be severe enough to overrange several pressure transducers.

   1989, Timothy L. Fagerburg, Richard E. Price, Stacy E. Howington, Water Quality Outlet Works Prototype Tests, page 40

3. To range too far or too much.

   Pain with active movement will prevent the patient from overranging the neck.

   2012, James G. Adams, Emergency Medicine, page 659

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   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.

   1956, Engineering Experiment Station Bulletin - Issues 44-45, page 244

   In regard to the deployment of troops in the field; years ago the settlers practically ruined this whole valley by overgrazing. Now you can overrange, I guess, too, with the troops.

   1990, Fort Huachuca, Fort Devens, Fort Monmouth Base Realignment: Final Environmental Impact Statement

4. To range over.

   If, on the other hand, the eye palpably overranges the breech, or fails to reach it when the head is naturally couched to the aim, the stock is, in the first place, manifestly too short, in the second, as much too long.

   2019, Frank Forester, The Complete Manual for Young Sportsmen

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   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;

   1849, Arthur Hugh Clough, The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich: A Long-vacation Pastoral, page 90

comparative more overrange · superlative most overrange

1. Beyond the expected or allowed range.

   When the input is overrange, the display flashes on and off.

   1978, Motorola CMOS integrated circuits, page 7-250

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   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.

   1972, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Technology Utilization Division, NASA Tech Brief - Issues 10600-10756, page 10737

   The amount of activity refluxing into the renal pelvis is small compared to that in the bladder and is thus easily overlooked unless each curve is normalized to its own maximum and the bladder is overrange.

   2012, Malcolm V. Merrick, Essentials of Nuclear Medicine

   Because the ADC can count to 1023, and we want to be able to detect the overrange condition, we arbitrarily set a count of 1000 to equate to 1 mA, giving us the range of 1001 through 1023 to indicate the overrange values.

   2014, Jack Purdum, Dennis Kidder, Arduino Projects for Amateur Radio, page 104

   If a small - amplitude event triggers the system but the signal, when it arrives at a remote station , is attenuated to such a low level that it will not exceed the threshold level on that channel, the counter will go overrange.

   1977, Henry Reginald Hardy, Frederick W. Leighton, Proceedings: First Conference on Acoustic Emission/Microseismic Activity in Geologic Structures and Materials, page 90

   In addition, some smart transmitters have lengthy recovery times from power outages during which the transmitters go overrange and underrange, setting off alarms and causing problems for other instruments in the loop.

   1991, InTech - Volume 38, page 41