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One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.
Dennis Ritchie

Meaning of "over-engineered" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OVER-ENGINEERED

over-engineered  [ˌəʊvərɛndʒɪˈnɪəd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVER-ENGINEERED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Over-Engineered is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES OVER-ENGINEERED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Overengineering

Overengineering is the designing of a product to be more robust or complicated than is necessary for its application, either to ensure sufficient factor of safety, sufficient functionality, or because of design errors. Overengineering can be desirable when safety or performance on a particular criterion is critical, or when extremely broad functionality is required, but it is generally criticized from the point of view of value engineering as wasteful. As a design philosophy, such overcomplexity is the opposite of the less is more school of thought. Overengineering generally occurs in high-end products or specialized market criteria, and takes various forms. In one form, products are overbuilt, and have performance far in excess of needs, and hence are more expensive, bulkier, and heavier than necessary. Alternatively, they may be overcomplicated – the design may be far more complicated than is necessary for its use, such as a modern text editor asking whether files should be saved in ASCII, EBCDIC or various multi-byte formats.

Definition of over-engineered in the English dictionary

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WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVER-ENGINEERED


Bayard
ˈbeɪəd
beard
bɪəd
desired
dɪˈzaɪəd
disappeared
ˌdɪsəˈpɪəd
eared
ɪəd
gas-fired
ˈɡæsˌfaɪəd
Hilliard
ˈhɪlɪəd
inspired
ɪnˈspaɪəd
layered
ˈleɪəd
long-eared
ˈlɒŋˌɪəd
myriad
ˈmɪrɪəd
period
ˈpɪərɪəd
required
rɪˈkwaɪəd
retired
rɪˈtaɪəd
revered
rɪˈvɪəd
tired
ˈtaɪəd
undesired
ˌʌndɪˈzaɪəd
weird
wɪəd
whitebeard
ˈwaɪtˌbɪəd
wired
waɪəd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVER-ENGINEERED

over the score
over the top
over-able
over-advertise
over-aged
over-alert
over-articulate
over-assessment
over-busy
over-designed
over-the-counter
over-the-counter market
over-the-top
over-under
over-use
overabound
overabound in
overabundance
overabundant
overaccentuate

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVER-ENGINEERED

bothered
centered
chartered
considered
covered
endangered
fingered
ordered
powdered
recovered
registered
remembered
scattered
shattered
tapered
triggered
unanswered
uncheered
unpeered
what the doctor ordered

Synonyms and antonyms of over-engineered in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «over-engineered» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OVER-ENGINEERED

Find out the translation of over-engineered to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of over-engineered from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «over-engineered» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

过度设计
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

más de la ingeniería
570 millions of speakers

English

over-engineered
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अधिक इंजीनियर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الإفراط في هندستها
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

над инженерии
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mais de engenharia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ওভার engineered
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sur l´ingénierie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Over-engineered
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

over-engineered
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

オーバーエンジニアリング
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

오버 설계
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Over-engineered
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trên chế
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வழியாக பொறியியல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अति-इंजीनियर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

aşırı mühendislik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

over -engineered
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

na inżynierii
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

над інженерії
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

peste - inginerie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πάνω-μηχανικής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oor- ontwerp
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

över engineered
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

over- konstruert
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of over-engineered

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVER-ENGINEERED»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OVER-ENGINEERED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about over-engineered

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QUOTES WITH «OVER-ENGINEERED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word over-engineered.
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Dennis Ritchie
One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVER-ENGINEERED»

Discover the use of over-engineered in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to over-engineered and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Smoke Effects: the Use of Over-engineered Smoke Control ...
Smoke control systems are increasingly being incorporated into the fire safety design of buildings to protect structures ranging from multi-storey residential and public buildings, to underground car parks, shopping centres, warehouses and ...
Allan Meek, 2008
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LIFE
His sum-up : "Over- engineered." He's right. And Mercedes-Benz is proud of it. By conventional standards, these 4 new cars are "over-engineered." They're built to far more exacting standards than conventional cars. For example: Every new ...
3
The Naturally Frugal Baby
Disposable. diapers. Disposable diapers seem to fall into two camps: the Over- Engineered, and the Almost- Too-Skimpy. The Over-Engineered diapers have all the bells and whistles. I am sure that it is only a matter of time before they come ...
Peggy Wilson, 2011
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Plastics in Food Patkaging: Properties: Design and Fabrication
Similarly, standard barrier packaging chosen empirically for the study on the basis of its commercial availability frequently leads to over-engineered or under- engineered packages. Over-engineered packages provide a higher degree of ...
Natalie Brown, 1992
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Safety Integrity: The Implications of Iec 61508 and Other ...
65% 10% 25% • Functions Classification decreased, before classification over engineered. • Functions no change. D Functions Classification increased, before classification unsafe. Figure 1 Typical trip systems over and under engineering ...
‎2000
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New Scientist
They claim that the car has been deliberately over-engineered to make sure it is as safe as can be. With 100 000 and more buyers expected every year, neither Pontiac, nor the vehicle industry, want anything to happen to a Fiero that could ...
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Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green ...
Note the ironic No Dumping sign. (Photo: Carol R. Johnson Associates.) Chesapeake Bay Foundation's headquarters (Annapolis MD), sometimes called the world's greenest office building.39 Replace Over-engineered Drainage Structures ...
J. William Thompson, Kim Sorvig, 2007
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The Cultivation of Taste: Chefs and the Organization of Fine ...
I am referring to an obsession with detail—in this case the detail on every plate—' where each brush stroke is placed with great care' (from the manifesto of NDK). This frequently leads to an over-engineered product, or—in haute cuisine—to a ...
Christel Lane, 2014
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Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB
So what if many J2EE applications are “over-engineered”? Surely they'll be responsive to future needs, highly maintainable, and highly performant? Unfortunately, this is not the case. This is one of the costliest myths associated with J2EE.
Rod Johnson, 2004
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Java SOA Cookbook
... cross-checking with a variety of references. Resume padding This is a reality. Beware of developers and architects who seek to advance their careers at the cost of populating your SOA with frivolous functionality or over-engineered solutions ...
Eben Hewitt, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVER-ENGINEERED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term over-engineered is used in the context of the following news items.
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2015 Mercedes-Benz GLA 250 4MATIC: Behind The Wheel
... 2015 Mercedes-Benz GLA250 4Matic, two things have become very clear: 1) The days of drastically over-engineered compact luxury sedans ... «San Francisco News, Jul 15»
2
If You Still Don't Get The Alfa Romeo 4C, Read This
Over the years the sports car has evolved, or more accurately, devolved, into a comically over-engineered, overweight, luxury status symbol ... «Jalopnik, Jul 15»
3
The multiple efficiencies of self-driving electric cars
For instance, for short journeys at relatively low speed in an urban environment, today's cars are ridiculously over-engineered. With the new ... «Conservative Home, Jul 15»
4
HS2 chairman's 'depressing' view of design slammed
'Designed to fit the most extreme case on a given route, this creates generic and over-engineered modules that are used indiscriminately. «Architects' Journal, Jul 15»
5
Matt Williams: some uncomfortable home truths about football …
It's not about over-engineered fan celebrations, face-paints or supporters spending more time filming the game than watching it. But I don't think ... «More About Advertising | Insights into Advertising, Jul 15»
6
Carthage Middle School students return to school for summer STEM …
... students worked on creating their own Rube Goldberg machines, an apparatus that is deliberately over-engineered or overdone to perform a ... «WatertownDailyTimes.com, Jul 15»
7
Edmonton city staff hand back national traffic safety award after bike …
“It's an over-engineered road that could actually support a dedicated cycle track, four lanes of traffic and a sidewalk. So you could actually have ... «National Post, Jul 15»
8
New HR study finds UK employers shifting away from annual …
While employers consider it important to measure performance, current processes are seen to have become too complex and over-engineered, ... «Onrec, Jul 15»
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5 British Open takeaways: Jordan Spieth is relentless, Tiger might …
It's a pretty strong piece of support for Azinger's pet phrase that Tiger has been "over-engineered" and the "artist has tried to become an ... «SB Nation, Jul 15»
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Edmonton city staff hand back national award as bike lanes removed
“It's an over-engineered road that could actually support a dedicated cycle track, four lanes of traffic and a sidewalk. So you could actually have ... «Edmonton Journal, Jul 15»

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