Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a problem or question English) Suffering so many constraints that it has no solution. 2 (context linear algebra of a system of linear equations English) Having more equations than variables. 3 (context usually psychoanalysis English) determined by multiple causes in such a way that any of the causes on its own would be sufficient to account for the effect.
Wikipedia
Overdetermined may refer to:
- Overdetermined systems in various branches of mathematics
- Overdetermination in various fields of psychology or analytical thought
Usage examples of "overdetermined".
The bloody babe is so overdetermined as a symbol that it resists any careful reading.
This is particularly so in a setting as freighted and overdetermined as this one.
In short, the paradigm shift is defined, at least initially, by the recognition that only an established power, overdetermined with respect to and relatively autonomous from the sovereign nation-states, is capable of functioning as the center of the new world order, exercising over it an effective regulation and, when necessary, coercion.
Perhaps a bit on the reclusive side, a bit careful, a bit overdetermined to control their own environment.
Or, to be more specific, I was overdetermined and in no mood for her style transduction of affect.
She had wheeled over to Manny to illustrate some overdetermined point about motif lifts.
But I was leaning toward a conclusion that she had an overdetermined intellectual and professional arrogance that had been cemented by some monumental insecurity that she was struggling to tame as a lion tamer controls a big cat.
What does it say in excess of the location of its elements on this grid and the subsequent revelation of vast and overdetermined absences?