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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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Their identities were overdetermined by these interests and concerns, and resistance cannot capture the full range of either their intent or their actions.
Selig and Major League Baseball seem to be after an overdetermined, semivindictive, specific-unto-bespoke type of justice here.
But this powerful stage image of breaking glass is overdetermined with other significations as well.
Both employ the image of a vulture to metaphorize a complex, overdetermined response to the conditions of life.
The dominant-submissive interplay which the playwright labours to construct in words is massively overdetermined by the director-editor's unimaginative choice of shots.
Negative constructions have an overdetermined role with respect to presupposition.

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