excess
/ˈɛksɛs/ noun B1- The state of surpassing or going beyond a limit; the state of being beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; more than what is usual or proper. · The excess of heavy water was given away to the neighbouring country.· I leaped up in an excess of enthusiasm.
- The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder. · The difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.
- An act of eating or drinking more than enough.
- Spherical excess, the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle.
Plural excesses
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“There is no occasion to move yet, my son,” she replied; “the man who only sends to his friends to help him with his harvest is not really in earnest.” The owner of the field came again a few days later and saw the wheat shedding the grain from excess of ripeness.
“Yes, but it may be pushed to excess.
“What are you thinking of?” asked the abbé smilingly, imputing the deep abstraction in which his visitor was plunged to the excess of his awe and wonder.
“Sir,” replied Caderousse, “they had made me drink to such an excess that I nearly lost all perception.
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