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1862 Philos. Trans. 1861 (Royal Soc.) 151 741 In the triangle N a b, all distances and directions have been measured. It is therefore over-determined, and the definite relations had to be deduced by the calculus of compensation.

1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 377/2 The definitions which have not been mentioned are all ‘nominal definitions’, that is to say, they fix a name for the thing described. Many of them overdetermine a figure.

1932 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 62 220 It is probable, too, that the wheel symbolism is over-determined throughout the play.

1974 J. White tr. N. Poulantzas Fascism & Dictatorship i. iii. 40 The economic process is overdetermined by the class struggle, which has primacy.

1993 Jrnl. Petrol. 34 791 Mass balance techniques did not work at T 〉950°C because the number of phases was too high to overdetermine sufficiently the system of linear equations.

1959 I. Pool in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 308/1 The third of the overdetermining influences in the development of contingency analysis was structural linguistics.

1990 Black Amer. Lit. Forum 24 650 This broader text, this often overdetermining ‘influence’ may suggest the echoes..that frame a tradition.