overreference
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]overreference (third-person singular simple present overreferences, present participle overreferencing, simple past and past participle overreferenced)
- (transitive) To reference too much or too often.
- Antonym: underreference
- 1979, Environment and Planning A, volume 11, page 964:
- Despite considerable overreferencing, which sometimes intrudes into the text sufficiently to disturb the thought processes of the reader, the book is well written.
- 2010, Robert Vieira, Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Programming:
- The concept of normalization has to be one of most overreferenced yet misunderstood concepts in programming.