ex·ceed·ance

[ik-seed-ns]
noun
1.
the act or fact of exceeding something, especially a limit or standard: penalties for exceedance of air quality standards.
2.
the amount by which something exceeds a limit or standard: a 10 percent exceedance.
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exceedance

noun
(geology) the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a given exposure time; "the concept of exceedance can be applied to any type of environmental risk modeling" 
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Exceedance is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Another refinement is to determine the contribution of each source to an exceedance during a certain time of day.
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