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Definition of Overcompensated
1. overcompensate [v] - See also: overcompensate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcompensated
Literary usage of Overcompensated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theory and Calculation of Alternating Current Phenomena by Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1900)
"... and: Curve VIII, an overcompensated series motor, that is, conduct!
vely compensated series motor, in which the compensating winding contains 20 per ..."
2. Theory and Operation of Direct-current Machinery by Cyril Methodius Jansky (1917)
"commutating pole is overcompensated a current flows in such a direction as to
... When the load is suddenly thrown on an overcompensated interpole motor it ..."
3. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1907)
"So that, within limits, the heat loss may at first be overcompensated. After a
moderately cold bath not lasting too long he showed that there follows a ..."
4. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair by Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye (1995)
"After suffering through the Articles of Confederation (and various state
constitutions) that had overcompensated for monarchy, the 1787 delegates wanted to ..."
5. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1920)
"overcompensated, resulting in an efficiency of the circulation above the normal.
Now follows the stage of concentration of the blood. ..."
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