overrange
Beyond the expected or allowed range.
Adjective
- Beyond the expected or allowed range.
- 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...
- When the input is overrange, the display flashes on and off. - 1978, Motorola CMOS integrated circuits, page 7-250:
- 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,...
Origin
From over- + range.
Forms
Noun
- Input to an instrument beyond the range of values it is designed to handle.
- 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...
- 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:
- 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:
- The amount by which an instrument can handle input outside the designated or expected range.
- 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,...
- It has an overrange to 100,000 counts and uses a current-balancing technique. - 2013, Anne Fischer Lent, Practical Applications Circuits Handbook, page 97:
- 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)....
Forms
Verb
- To respond to input beyond the designated or expected range; to provide an overrange.
- 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:
- Most meters have the ability to overrange and add a partial or “half” digit. - 1999, Clyde F. Coombs, Electronic Instrument Handbook, page 13-29:
- To produce input beyond the range that an instrument is designed to measure or handle.
- 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:
- Care must be taken so as not to overrange the instruments - 1989, Aeronautical Note - Issues 57-64, page 2:
- To range too far or too much.
- 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...
- 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,...
- Pain with active movement will prevent the patient from overranging the neck. - 2012, James G. Adams, Emergency Medicine, page 659:
- To range over.
- 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...
- 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....