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2. Adjective. (context: linear algebra of a system of linear equations) which has more equations than variables. ¹

3. Adjective. (context: usually psychoanalysis) be determined by multiple causes in such a way that any of the causes on its own would be sufficient to account for the effect. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overdetermined

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overdetermined

Literary usage of Overdetermined

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dreams and Myths: A Study in Race Psychology by Karl Abraham (1913)
"The elements of the myth, like the elements of the dream, are also overdetermined. The Greek Prometheus saga owes its form to a very active process of ..."

2. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1913)
"are to contain all these thoughts, as Kuhn's work has shown us, each word, so to say, must be " overdetermined," quite as it is in the dream. ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Sometimes an overdetermined symbolism may in the course of time become extremely complicated. The patient is driven from one level to another, ..."

4. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"The psychical factors that have overdetermined the hope-wish of personal immortality are as follows: (2) The desire to do things that will affect those who ..."

5. The Culture of Violence by Kumar Rupesinghe (1994)
"In traditional exorcisms, for example, the demon is that which yearns for property and things of the material world, indeed demonstrates an overdetermined ..."

6. Making Markets: Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Post by Shafiqul Islam, Michael Mandelbaum (1993)
"With their choices thus overdetermined, they did have to choose. Since in principle the plan was to have dictated all micro-level choices, the managers' ..."

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