Overshoot and Undershoot

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Overshoot verb - Shoot beyond or over (a target).

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Undershoot is an antonym for overshoot.

Undershoot verb - Shoot short of or below (a target).

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Overshoot is an antonym for undershoot.

Nearby Word: undershooting

In practice, it would always overshoot, undershoot, or detonate too low or too high unless you used trigonometry.

Source: Everybody Hates Mathematics

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