overcapacitate
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[edit]Verb
[edit]overcapacitate (third-person singular simple present overcapacitates, present participle overcapacitating, simple past and past participle overcapacitated)
- (transitive) To exhaust the capacity of.
- 1951, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations, Hearings, page 1013:
- It is a very flat town, and this storm overcapacitated the storm drainage in the city and, believe you me, it put Salina under water.
- 2001, Karen R. Smilowitz, Design and Operation of Multimode, Multiservice Logistics Systems, page 58:
- More importantly, operational constraints on airport density (maximum service radius restrictions and the limit of two stops on longhaul trips) tend to overcapacitate the air network even in the deterministic cases.