overhanging

overhang | American Dictionary

overhang
verb[ T ]
us/ˌoʊ·vərˈhæŋ/past tense and past participleoverhungus/ˌoʊ·vərˈhʌŋ/
(of something at a high level) to stick out farther than something at a lower level and therefore not to have any support from below, or to hang over:
The balcony overhangs the patio, creating a shady place to sit.

overhang

noun[ C ]us/ˈoʊ·vərˌhæŋ/
The house has a deep overhang facing the southern sun.

overhang | Business English

overhang
noun[ C,usually singular ]
uk /ˈəʊvəˌhæŋ/us
COMMERCE
a quantity of goods or other things that have not been sold when they should have been:
a stock/an inventory/a supply overhangWe're about to enter the selling season with a really big supply overhang.
an overhang of sthPrices are unlikely to increase while there is an overhang of 40,000 unsold new houses.
FINANCE, STOCK MARKET
a situation on a stock market in which a quantity of shares is available but not sold, reducing their price:
an overhang of sthThe potential overhang of more than 200 million shares of stock is one of a number of financial and legal risks that investors in the company face.
overhang
verb[ T ]
uk /ˌəʊvəˈhæŋ/usoverhung | overhung
FINANCE, STOCK MARKET
to bring down the price of something because there is too much of it available:
Massive gold stocks continue to overhang the market, traders say.

Examples of overhang

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There is a delightful duckpond, in the village, fed from within by more springs and edged by overhanging willows, creating a picturesque scene.
As one wave rides another, so each floor overhangs the one below.
Limiting solutions were obtained when the overhanging portions of successive waves came into contact.
Fires raged for hours because of the lack of pumps and the inaccessibility of narrow alleyways overhung by buildings full of combustible material.
We do not consider the stability of overhanging profiles here, but we expect this to follow along similar lines to the one-sided problem.
The blastoderm overhangs its margin at the dorsal midline, having a crinkled edge where it attaches to the yolk cell.
The slices are trimmed to avoid rock overhanging the slide.
The lordly tripod is replaced by a broken palm-tree overhanging a mourning woman.
The conscious choice to produce overhanging manos may reflect several factors.
Frontal area steeply downsloping, partially to completely overhung by glabella.
Instead, there may be overhanging portions in the wave profile, similar to those discussed earlier, for example.
An advantage of such a method is that it easily allows the computation of waves with overhanging portions in the profiles.
During a severe snow squall she collided with the overhanging northern ice cliff.
In one gap plot overhanging branches were removed from neighbouring trees.
Amphipods were sampled with a dip net (mesh size 3 mm) in shallow waters near the bank, both from overhanging vegetation and below the waterline.
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