| 释义 |
overdeˈsign, v.
[over- 26.]
trans. To design to a standard of reliability or safety higher than the usual or minimum standard.
1964M. Gowing Britain & Atomic Energy, 1939–1945 x. 278 The team in fact decided to ‘over-design’ the pile. 1969Word Study Apr. 4/2 Rocket boosters must contain..hundreds of redundant systems to preclude failure and to provide reliability; they are overdesigned, well beyond what is necessary for normal function. The same over⁓design appears in much of the prose. 1970Nature 18 July 218/2 Once a tower has been shown to live up to its specification, the designer likes to see by how much he has over⁓designed it, and about fifty per cent of the towers are eventually tested to destruction.
Hence as n., the action of overdesigning; an instance of this.
1969[see above]. 1972Lebende Sprachen XVII. 134/2 Greater reliability, without penalties caused by over⁓design, are expected to be achieved through use of a simulator. |