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n. Designing too specifically or to too great an extent. vb. (context ambitransitive English) To design too specifically or to too great an extent, as by including unnecessary features.
Usage examples of "overdesign".
But having been put up back during an era of overdesign, it proved to be sturdier than it looked, with its old stucco eaten at to reveal generations of paint jobs in different beach-town pastels, corroded by salt and petrochemical fogs that flowed in the summers onshore up the sand slopes, on up past Sepulveda, often across the then undeveloped fields, to wrap the San Diego Freeway too.
NASA accident inquiry, I could maybe believe that what happened was an overdesigned safety system going wrong.
The basic stone bowelflash had come and gone about the time DL showed up, all in black including helmet and face shield, riding her esteemed and bad red and silver Czech motorcycle, the Che Zed, overdesigned in every part, up onto which she gathered Frenesi out of danger, camera, miniskirt, equipment bags, and all, and carried her away.
He and George Simmons had gone over it countless times, the engineer arguing that the building was overdesigned while Glen insisted on erring on the side of safety.
The pump and other pieces of crucial equipment were deliberately overdesigned, intended to survive well beyond their official lifespan.
Businesswise everything continues to work like a ridiculously overdesigned watch.
It would have been impossible if the net had not been overdesigned with this mission in mind.
NASA accident inquiry, I could maybe believe that what happened was an overdesigned safety system going wrong.