"overrepresentation" meaning in English

See overrepresentation in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: overrepresentations [plural]
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  1. (uncountable) The condition of being overrepresented. Tags: uncountable Translations (the condition of being overrepresented): sobrerepresentació [feminine] (Catalan), oververtegenwoordiging [feminine] (Dutch), yliedustus (Finnish), surreprésentation [feminine] (French), sobrerrepresentación [feminine] (Galician), Überrepräsentation [feminine] (German), υπερεκπροσώπηση (yperekprosópisi) [feminine] (Greek), ró-ionadaíocht [feminine] (Irish), sovrarrappresentazione [feminine] (Italian), sovrarappresentazione [feminine] (Italian), nadreprezentacja [feminine] (Polish), sobrerrepresentação [feminine] (Portuguese), sobrerrepresentación [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-overrepresentation-en-noun-nWOvyMUE Categories (other): English entries referencing pages with etymology sections missing etymons, English entries with etymology texts, English entries with etymology trees, English entries with etymon, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with over-, Entries with translation boxes, Pages using etymon with no ID, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Pages with etymology trees, Pages with etymon, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries referencing pages with etymology sections missing etymons: 77 23 Disambiguation of English entries with etymology texts: 75 25 Disambiguation of English entries with etymology trees: 75 25 Disambiguation of English entries with etymon: 75 25 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 77 23 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with over-: 77 23 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 86 14 Disambiguation of Pages using etymon with no ID: 87 13 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 87 13 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 91 9 Disambiguation of Pages with etymology trees: 92 8 Disambiguation of Pages with etymon: 94 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 92 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 91 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 90 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 89 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 95 5 Disambiguation of 'the condition of being overrepresented': 100 0
  2. (countable) An excessive representation. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-overrepresentation-en-noun-ojIzXIHK
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: overrepresent, overrepresentate, overrepresentative, overrepresented

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.