"oversum" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2004, Max-Planck-Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Patent-, Urheber- und Wettbewerbsrecht, Max Planck series on Asian intellectual property law, page 8",
          "text": "The tradition consists in understanding a politically active unit as an oversum (that is, a super-additive entity): The whole is more than the sum of its parts.",
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Christoph Antons, Michael Blakeney, Christopher Heath, Intellectual Property Harmonisation Within ASEAN and APEC, page 6",
          "text": "It follows from this counterbalance of majority rule and inalienable absolutes within a given society that the latter is ordered according to the oversum principle: The whole is more than the sum of its parts.",
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          "ref": "2006, Manfred O. Hinz, Helgard K. Patemann, The Shade of New Leaves, page 315",
          "text": "Democracy requires an oversum, a koiné, a res publica, a Genossenschaft, a commonwealth, a League such as the Iroquois, a Tewa-Pueblo, that is, an entity of which the citizens are members with membership duties and rights.",
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          "ref": "2008, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Abhandlungen: Issue 132, page 343",
          "text": "The Saxonian tradition does not know or rejects the cooperative, the oversum, or superaddition.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Bernd Lindemann, Mechanisms in World and Mind",
          "text": "Thus SB is an over-sum effect.",
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        "A whole that is more than the sum of its parts; superaddition."
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          "superaddition",
          "superaddition"
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        "participle",
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      "form": "oversummed",
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          "ref": "1941, The Accountant's Magazine - Volume 45, page 314",
          "text": "In an account in the ledger, which has been ruled off as square, it is found that the credit side has been oversummed by £ 100.",
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          "ref": "1996, Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents - Volume 1, page 287",
          "text": "and in measure your measure you always oversum — and now I have now come to tell you that this is the last time that I shall never call again and you only want",
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          "ref": "2014, Roy A. Chandler, J. R. Edwards, Recurring Issues in Auditing (RLE Accounting)",
          "text": "Sometimes the totals are found to be short of the amounts entered in the Cash Book. In other cases, the sheets are found to be systematically oversummed; while again \"dummy\" mon may be inserted, or the calculations of the details of the pay may be overstated.",
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        "To add up incorrectly, arriving at a total that is too large."
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          "text": "The tradition consists in understanding a politically active unit as an oversum (that is, a super-additive entity): The whole is more than the sum of its parts.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Christoph Antons, Michael Blakeney, Christopher Heath, Intellectual Property Harmonisation Within ASEAN and APEC, page 6",
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          "text": "Democracy requires an oversum, a koiné, a res publica, a Genossenschaft, a commonwealth, a League such as the Iroquois, a Tewa-Pueblo, that is, an entity of which the citizens are members with membership duties and rights.",
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          "ref": "2014, Bernd Lindemann, Mechanisms in World and Mind",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents - Volume 1, page 287",
          "text": "and in measure your measure you always oversum — and now I have now come to tell you that this is the last time that I shall never call again and you only want",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Roy A. Chandler, J. R. Edwards, Recurring Issues in Auditing (RLE Accounting)",
          "text": "Sometimes the totals are found to be short of the amounts entered in the Cash Book. In other cases, the sheets are found to be systematically oversummed; while again \"dummy\" mon may be inserted, or the calculations of the details of the pay may be overstated.",
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        "To add up incorrectly, arriving at a total that is too large."
      ]
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