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Meaning of "overrefinement" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OVERREFINEMENT

overrefinement  [ˌəʊvərɪˈfaɪnmənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERREFINEMENT

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preposition
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determiner
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Overrefinement is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OVERREFINEMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of overrefinement in the English dictionary

The definition of overrefinement in the dictionary is the act of refining to excess. Other definition of overrefinement is the act of making excessively fine distinctions.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVERREFINEMENT


alignment
əˈlaɪnmənt
alinement
əˈlaɪnmənt
assignment
əˈsaɪnmənt
confinement
kənˈfaɪnmənt
consignment
kənˈsaɪnmənt
definement
dɪˈfaɪnmənt
designment
dɪˈzaɪnmənt
dessignment
dɪˈzaɪnmənt
enshrinement
ɪnˈʃraɪnmənt
entertainment
ˌɛntəˈteɪnmənt
entwinement
ɪnˈtwaɪnmənt
intertwinement
ˌɪntəˈtwaɪnmənt
malignment
məˈlaɪnmənt
misalignment
mɪsəˈlaɪnmənt
nonalignment
ˌnɒnəˈlaɪnmənt
realignment
ˌriːəˈlaɪnmənt
reassignment
ˌriːəˈsaɪnmənt
refinement
rɪˈfaɪnmənt
repinement
rɪˈpaɪnmənt
resignment
rɪˈzaɪnmənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVERREFINEMENT

overrate
overrated
overreach
overreacher
overreact
overreaction
overread
overreckon
overred
overrefine
overregulate
overregulation
overreliance
overreport
overrepresented
overrespond
overrich
overridden
override
overrider

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVERREFINEMENT

advertisement
agreement
announcement
apartment
arrangement
basement
element
enforcement
engagement
implement
improvement
infringement
management
measurement
movement
placement
replacement
requirement
retirement
statement
supplement

Synonyms and antonyms of overrefinement in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «overrefinement» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OVERREFINEMENT

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

Translator English - Chinese

overrefinement
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

overrefinement
570 millions of speakers

English

overrefinement
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

overrefinement
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

overrefinement
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

overrefinement
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

overrefinement
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

overrefinement
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

overrefinement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pembaikan semula
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

overrefinement
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

overrefinement
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

overrefinement
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Overrefinement
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

overrefinement
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

overrefinement
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अत्याधुनिकता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

overrefinement
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

overrefinement
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

overrefinement
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

overrefinement
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

overrefinement
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

overrefinement
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

overrefinement
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

overrefinement
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overrefinement
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of overrefinement

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERREFINEMENT»

The term «overrefinement» is normally little used and occupies the 125.102 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERREFINEMENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «overrefinement» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «overrefinement» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about overrefinement

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERREFINEMENT»

Discover the use of overrefinement in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overrefinement and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Careful Writer
OVERREFINEMENT careful, overenthusiastic, and oVerlearned, but there will always be those who will insist on overly careful, overly enthusiastic, and overly learned. Which probably demonstrates that sometimes the "-ly" side is the windy  ...
Theodore M. Bernstein, 1995
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Sorties
Ultimately, it is self-defeating. All this riot business, all this student take-over business: maybe this will blast some of this overrefinement out of us. But we'll get it back again; intelligence always leads to overrefinement: to its own overrefinement.
James Dickey, 1984
3
Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations on ...
This leads into an overrefinement of the final distributed mesh. Experimental data from PD3 (see Table 7.1) suggest that the overrefinement is not as high as one could expect. However, the authors of [52] are working on a new approach which  ...
Are Magnus Bruaset, Aslak Tveito, 2006
4
Chuang Tzu
Seep. 55. overrefinementofdutytowards one'sneighbour leads to perversion of principle; The eternalprinciples whichareofTAOand not ofman. overrefinementofceremonial leadsto divergence fromthetrue object; overrefinement ofmusic leadsto ...
Herbert A Giles, 2013
5
Measurement for the Social Sciences: The C-OAR-SE Method and ...
Overrefinement produces precise but wrong scores, and thus misleading data and erroneous conclusions. Researchers routinely use poorly chosen measures and yet treat the scores from these measures as impossibly precise—such as ...
John R. Rossiter, 2010
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Delaunay Mesh Generation
Left: Overrefinement with a Delaunay triangulation in a box. Right: Refinement with a constrained Delaunay triangulation. Proposition 6.14 guarantees termination, but not good grading. It is possible to salvage a weakened proof of good ...
Siu-Wing Cheng, Tamal K. Dey, Jonathan Shewchuk, 2012
7
The American Review of Reviews
C. Hubert Parry makes a statement to the effect that “ whenever the musical art of a country becomes weakened through overrefinement, it draws new strength and vitality from the simple songs of the folk." America's musical danger has not lain ...
‎1908
8
Chinese tales: Zhuangzi, sayings and parables and Chinese ...
Overrefinement of sight leads to debauchery of colors; overrefinement of hearing leads to debauchery of sound; overrefinement of human love leads to the confusion of virtue; overrefinement of justice leads to the reversal of basic principles; ...
Martin Buber, Zhuangzi, Songling Pu, 1991
9
Global Perspectives on Tarzan: From King of the Jungle to ...
... the intellectual capacity of the apes and abandons the tribe to be content to rule himself. CURING. OVERREFINEMENT. AND. THE. “STRUGGLE. FOR. EXISTENCE”. Tarzan's unfettered development in the jungle is ripe with opportunity for ...
Annette Wannamaker, Michelle Ann Abate, 2012
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The American Review of Reviews
America's musical danger has not lain in developing, but in copying an overrefinement at the outset, in building a foundation on decay. And the greatest danger of all was that this decay was becoming fashionable, without (creditably to its ...
Albert Shaw, 1908

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERREFINEMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term overrefinement is used in the context of the following news items.
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Theatre of glamour: Montreal hosts a brilliant exhibit of Horst's …
... he defined as “a form of physical and mental grace that has nothing to do with pretension or overrefinement or an excess of money to spend.”. «The Globe and Mail, Jun 15»
2
For Lower East Side, Chinese-Americans and Brontës, Museums of …
“Though the sisters were extremely well read and had diverse literary influences, there is a directness and lack of overrefinement about their ... «New York Times, Mar 15»
3
Nelly Power: When Coming Out Isn't a Choice
"Marked by an unbecoming delicacy or overrefinement." The subtle message is that being like a woman is not a good thing, especially for a ... «Advocate.com, Nov 13»
4
Book Review: 'The Lowland' by Jhumpa Lahiri | 'Local Souls' by …
An aura of overrefinement has always been a limitation in Ms. Lahiri's fiction. Her prose is dispassionate and magisterial, as if intended to be ... «Wall Street Journal, Sep 13»
5
Hilary Mantel: By the Book
The author of “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies” prefers books with action: “I don't like overrefinement, or to dwell in the heads of vaporous ... «New York Times, May 13»
6
A new film version of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (and Sean Baker's …
Such a desire usually leads to pretentiousness, deliberate overrefinement, excessive floweriness and artificiality. … Many contemporary poets ... «World Socialist Web Site, Dec 12»
7
A Richard Artschwager retrospective.
But the pictures' crunching matter-of-factness casts a pall over the vanity of expensive overrefinement. Also excellent, from the same period, are ... «New Yorker, Nov 12»

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