overshift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌʃɪft/
ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈʃɪft/
Forms: form: overshifts
Etymology: From over- + shift.
Senses: examples: text: The chart, representing two players, shows how the overshift principle forces the offensive player to traverse a greater distance than the defensive player who is guarding him.
ref: 1975, William Albert Healey, Joseph W. Hartley, Basketball's ten greatest defenses, page 24:
text: By using the overshift, you can also develop a good stunting game that will not leave you wide open in case of fullback traps or even option plays.
ref: 1977, Coach and Athlete - Volume 40, page 28:
text: The overshift works well against left-handed hitters who pull the ball farthest to the right.
ref: 2011, Evander Lomke, Martin Rowe, Right Off the Bat: Baseball, Cricket, Literature, & Life, →ISBN, page 61:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The strategy or act of positioning defensive players extra far toward the offense's strong side, leaving portions of the field or court undefended.
examples: text: The protruding basal oxygens are themselves displaced slightly in the x-direction so that the shift required is either 0.4 + δÅ (overshift) or 0.4 -δ Å (undershift).
ref: 1983, Leslie Michaels, Seymour S. Chissick, R. Derricott, Asbestos, properties, applications, and hazards, →ISBN, page 114:
text: In the structure of chrysotile 2M_(c1) illustrated in Figure 7.6 is approximately 0.1 Å, and so overshift is 0.5 Å and the undershift is 0.3 Å, occurring in successive layers to produce a two-layer unit cell with B = 93.3°.
ref: 1988, Sturges W. Bailey, Reviews in Mineralogy - Volume 19, page 105:
text: These large overshifts increase the value of the monoclinic β angle over the ideal value by 1-2° in muscovite-IM.
ref: 1997, Robert Andrew Howie, J. Zussman, Rock-forming minerals - Volume 3, Part 1, →ISBN, page 288:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too far apart for molecular bonding.
examples: text: Back off second speed, overshift stop screw slightly, and determine that speed poppet is seated in notch. Tighten screw to permit a very slight overshift of lever to rear.
ref: 1971, Chilton's Auto Repair Manual, 1940-1953, page 624:
text: One other derailleur problem I should mention is that of chain overshift or overshooting the gear you select.
ref: 1982, Eugene A. Sloane, Eugene A. Sloane's bicycle maintenance manual, page 88:
text: Damaging chain overshifts from misadjusted derailleurs can occur after wheel swaps, but they're avoidable.
ref: 2010, Todd Downs, The Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance & Repair, →ISBN, page 52:
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A misalignment resulting from shifting gears too far.
examples: text: Free migration would result in an overshift of population into urban areas and probably an overshift out of interior regions.
ref: 1985, World Bank Staff Working Paper, →ISBN, page 95:
text: These exceptional vowel qualities represent overshifts and nonshifts, and they are very consistently maintained in the local dialects.
ref: 1989, Eung-Do Cook, Keren D. Rice, Athapaskan Linguistics: Current Perspectives on a Language Family, →ISBN:
text: She initiates the pattern with pelvic elevation and a strong overshift of her trunk to the left as she circumducts and lifts her leg with knee extension.
ref: 2015, Suzanne Tink Martin, Mary Kessler, Neurologic Interventions for Physical Therapy, →ISBN, page 354:
glosses: A change that results in something being moved too far or too many things being moved.
examples: text: Only two overshifts at the outside can be required in one week; and the regular working period must not be increased by more than two hours.
ref: 1895, Engineering and Mining Journal - Volume 59, page 562:
text: After the revolution, the coming into power of the Socialists, as the only compact and organized party, raised very extravagant hopes with all workmen, and one of the first acts of the new men was the introduction of a maximum working day of eight hours, with prohibition of overshifts.
ref: 1920, The Century - Volume 100, page 256:
text: It made a seven-day week, without rest except at night. Also, it often fell out that we had to work "overshifts", that is, work from Tuesday morning with no break except for meals, till Wednesday night.
ref: 1978, Seven Shifts, page 60:
glosses: A work period that extends significantly beyond the normal eight-hour shift; An instance of involuntary overtime.
examples: text: ... the area has neotectonic characteristics : stiff carbonatic rocks are thrusted and folded each over the other originating inverse faults and overshifts.
ref: 1989, Charles Alan Kircher, Anil K. Chopra, Seismic engineering, research and practice:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An overhang caused by seismic shift.
examples: text: The two slaves who dressed her hurried forward, one with the nearly translucent overshift, the other with the heavy collar of onyx and gold that held it in place.
ref: 2011, Tanya Huff, Nights of the Round Table: And Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy, →ISBN:
glosses: An unfitted woman's overgarment.