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What does overdetermined mean?

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Adjective
  1. (of a problem or question) Suffering so many constraints that it has no solution.
  2. (linear algebra, of a system of linear equations) Having more equations than variables.
  3. (psychoanalysis) Determined by multiple causes in such a way that any of the causes on its own would be sufficient to account for the effect.
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Selig and Major League Baseball seem to be after an overdetermined, semivindictive, specific-unto-bespoke type of justice here.
But if they are not overdetermined, then which of the five conditions for overdetermination do the baseball and the atoms fail to meet?
Peace, if it is to be permanent, must be overdetermined too.
They are also seeking to realize the potential of international judicial regulation, again an area long overdetermined by national sovereignty.
The dominant-submissive interplay which the playwright labours to construct in words is massively overdetermined by the director-editor's unimaginative choice of shots.
Definition 1.3.13   An overdetermined system is a system where there are more equations than unknowns.

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