undershoot

present singular third person undershoots · participle present undershooting · participle past undershot · past undershot

1. To shoot not far enough or not well enough.
2. To fail to go far enough when trying to reach a goal.
3. broadlyTo underestimate.

   Just weeks ago, however, America’s top epidemiologists badly undershot how quickly COVID-19 would spread.

   2020, Brendan Kirby, Experts made coronavirus forecasts in mid-March; they whiffed badly

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   The first day, I think I undershot how much I should've been drinking, because it had almost no effect on me.

   2014, Dave Schilling, One of Our Writers Went on an All-Alcohol Diet for a Week

4. To record too little photographic footage.

plural undershoots

1. countableuncountableThe situation where a neuron's membrane potential falls below the normal resting potential.
2. countableuncountableAn instance of undershooting.

   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.

   1994, Peter B. Kenen, Francesco Papadia, Fabrizio Saccomanni, The International Monetary System, →ISBN, page 109