overreference
verbEtymology From over- + reference.
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To reference too much or too often.
- Despite considerable overreferencing, which sometimes intrudes into the text sufficiently to disturb the thought processes of the reader, the book is well written.1979, Environment and Planning A, volume 11, page 964:
- The concept of normalization has to be one of most overreferenced yet misunderstood concepts in programming.2010, Robert Vieira, Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Programming: