overcode verb 4noun 3forms 3 verb4 •To use a particular code or set of codes too much.Always overcode. It is better to put both codes down if you have any question about which category is most appropriate. — 1995 •To code too many things or include too many codes in a coding system.Coding should be done with great exactness: it is better to "overcode" than to "undercode." — 1972 •To use as an overcode for.It is equally self-defeating to reduce people to objects that may be possessed, or to interpret (i.e., overcode, classify, categorize) people or books. — 1998 •To act as an overcode for.Disability suties in education, as an academic field, or the disability rights movement, might be considered molar discourses that overcode the affective everyday experience of disability education. — 2014 noun3 •A code used to represent multiple (possibly unrelated) data items.Not only is it possible to construct an overcode collecting together groups of bill items but groups of overcodes can themselves be held collectively by a single higher overcode. — 1968 •An established code (signifier) that also acts as a new code, either representing additional (related) meanings, or dividing into various nuances of the original meaning.Opposed to codes that qualify, and overcodes that bring codes into a single resonance, axioms function by directly conjugating unqualified and decoded flows themselves. — 2012 •Inventory that can no longer be sold (such as items that are past their sell-by date).Suppose, we are just interested in articles that can cause overcode. — 2001 formsovercoded · overcoding · overcodes
