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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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But this powerful stage image of breaking glass is overdetermined with other significations as well.
The dominant-submissive interplay which the playwright labours to construct in words is massively overdetermined by the director-editor's unimaginative choice of shots.
They are also seeking to realize the potential of international judicial regulation, again an area long overdetermined by national sovereignty.
But if they are not overdetermined, then which of the five conditions for overdetermination do the baseball and the atoms fail to meet?
It is becoming increasingly clear that this argument, while right overall, significantly overdetermined the role of technology.
Selig and Major League Baseball seem to be after an overdetermined, semivindictive, specific-unto-bespoke type of justice here.

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