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Meaning of overdetermined

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

overdetermined

adjective

Definitions

  1. (of a problem or question) Having more constraints or causes than necessary to determine a solution or result.

  2. (of a system of linear equations) Having more equations than variables.

  3. (usually psychoanalysis) Determined by multiple causes in such a way that any of the causes on its own would be sufficient to account for the effect.