"overreference" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "over- + reference",
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  "etymology_text": "From over- + reference.",
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      "form": "overreferences",
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      "form": "overreferenced",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1979, Environment and Planning A, volume 11, page 964:",
          "text": "Despite considerable overreferencing, which sometimes intrudes into the text sufficiently to disturb the thought processes of the reader, the book is well written.",
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Robert Vieira, Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Programming:",
          "text": "The concept of normalization has to be one of most overreferenced yet misunderstood concepts in programming.",
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        "To reference too much or too often."
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        "(transitive) To reference too much or too often."
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  "word": "overreference"
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      "expansion": "over- + reference",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From over- + reference.",
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    {
      "form": "overreferences",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "overreferencing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overreferenced",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
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        "past"
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          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
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          "text": "The concept of normalization has to be one of most overreferenced yet misunderstood concepts in programming.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reference too much or too often."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To reference too much or too often."
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  "word": "overreference"
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