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overreference

verb

Etymology

From over- + reference.

  1. derived from referentia
  2. borrowed from référence
  3. prefixed as overreference — “over + reference”

Definitions

  1. To reference too much or too often.

    • Despite considerable overreferencing, which sometimes intrudes into the text sufficiently to disturb the thought processes of the reader, the book is well written.
    • The concept of normalization has to be one of most overreferenced yet misunderstood concepts in programming.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for overreference. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA