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Synonyms for overdrive

the state of high or excessive activity or productivity or concentration

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a high gear used at high speeds to maintain the driving speed with less output power

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drive or work too hard

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make use of too often or too extensively

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From their testing, Andreason and Tissell concluded that overdriving will not significantly affect the strength of a shear until at least 20 to 25 percent of the nails are overdriven, which represents a 3 to 4 percent reduction in ultimate load compared to flush driven nails.
Observed results from this research suggest that nail tear-out will be accentuated by overdriving the nails.
Capacity of oriented strandboard joints with overdriven nails
While the concept of thermal overdriving is not new, until now controlling thermal overdrive to provide useful benefits has proven largely elusive.
THERMAL OVERDRIVE FIRMWARE TO IMPROVE THERMAL TEST AND CONDITIONING THROUGHPUT
Cooler nails were driven using a pneumatic nailing gun equipped with a nail stop to prevent overdriving the nails.
Strength of plywood joints with overdriven nails
Veneer is much flatter when peeled with a combination of incising and overdriving during peeling.
Development of a new incising technology for plywood /LVL production. Part I. Incising at the lathe and its effect on veneer quality and recovery
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