{
  "id": "overshoot.dynamics",
  "term": "overshoot",
  "sense": "dynamics",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "dynamic",
  "domain": "system",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "drift carrying past a wall before the force meant to stop it arrives",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "drift.aimless",
      "wall.range-end",
      "parameter.condition",
      "carrying.transporting",
      "force.push",
      "stop.action",
      "past.temporal",
      "time.dimension",
      "mean.signify"
    ],
    "interaction": "Drift moves a parameter beyond a limiting wall before a stopping force acts.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "unintended overstepping",
      "delayed resistance",
      "meaningful trajectory"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2003, the Mars Climate Orbiter burned up in the atmosphere after a unit conversion error caused trajectory drift past the intended orbital insertion point.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2008 financial crisis followed economic drift beyond sustainable debt levels, with regulatory forces arriving too late to stop the collapse.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "A car on black ice in Quebec sped past the exit ramp despite braking, because the stopping force of tires failed to act before the drift carried it forward.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "drift.aimless",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "uncontrolled change allows crossing"
    },
    {
      "id": "wall.range-end",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "wall defines limit; overshoot crosses it"
    },
    {
      "id": "maintenance.upkeep",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "maintenance prevents drift; overshoot occurs when absent"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "overshoot"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'mean.signify' as it is implicitly required for the notion of 'meant to stop'; all other components are directly referenced or contextually necessary."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-overshoot.dynamics"
}