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What does exceedance mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word exceedance? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The extent to which an action, activity or substance exceeds a limit set by recommended practice, legislation, etc.
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A number of monitoring stations in southern Ontario recorded 21 to 45 exceedance days.
To avoid exceedance one has to write a rather awkward construction involving the verbal noun exceeding.
The corrosion maps were combined with tolerable corrosion rates to identify areas of exceedance.
The report will also present evidence of the continued exceedance of critical loads for both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in eastern Canada.
Furthermore, the actual exceedance of the critical load of cadmium for agricultural might turn out to be higher due to the use of fertilizers.
The modelling suggests that the risk of exceedance is significantly increased over normal operating conditions, when the plant is operating at the proposed PM10 limits.

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