The phrase "an overcompensation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation where someone is trying to make up for a perceived deficiency or mistake, often in an exaggerated manner.
Example: "His constant need to show off his wealth is just an overcompensation for his insecurities."
Alternatives: "an excessive compensation" or "a disproportionate response".
Ironically, in response to perceived insults like this one, the victims' -rights movement seems bent on an overcompensation of its own--in the form of an amendment to the Constitution.
The negative effect of temperature on the experimentally observed coking rates is qualitatively described and is explained in terms of an overcompensation of the increase of the rate coefficient by a lower surface coke precursor concentration.
These patterns are thought to be associated with a form of wave phenomenon and may be initiated by a single gravel patch in a channel; the first channel deviation requires an overcompensation of counter-deviation and sets off a chain reaction type of development.
Whether this was a deliberate move, an overcompensation by the company's algorithms, or simply normal is hard to say.
Thus, a Lithium-ion battery in an urban EV does not lead to an overcompensation of the potential benefits of the higher efficiency of EV compared to an ICEV [16].
Since the nominal speeds of both machines distinctly differ (PAT: 1200 min−1; pump: 2200 min−1) a gearbox was interposed so both machines can be operated at their respective nominal point leading to an overcompensation of the spur gear's energetic losses.
The macho pose, an obligatory overcompensation for aestheticism in the nineteen-fifties, ill suited a man whose ruling emotion was fear, which sprung from an anxious childhood in a ragged, nomadic family.
When he rode a Harley-Davidson onto the set of the NBC program "The Tonight Show" last fall, the stunt was widely seen as an awkward overcompensation.
I thought there was a little overcompensation involved".
In both models, the depleted granulocyte compartment is quickly repopulated after about 8 h and equilibrates after a short overcompensation.
Upon ascent, CaO2 significantly decreased in both teams 2 h after arrival (Australians: 17.7±1.4 mL/dL, Bolivians: 20.3±1.2 mL/dL, p<0.001) and considerably increased the following days achieving baseline values in Bolivians (at day 5: 22.3±1.0 mL/dL) and showing a significant overcompensation in Australians (at day 12: 21.8±1.4 mL/dL, p<0.001).
