overpartition

English

Etymology

over- +‎ partition

Noun

overpartition (plural overpartitions)

1. (mathematics) An overpartition of n is a non-increasing sequence of natural numbers whose sum is n in which the first occurrence of a number may be overlined.
   • 2016, Shane Chern, “Remarks on $\ell$-regular overpartitions”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     Recently, Shen studied the arithmetic properties of $\ell$-regular overpartition function ${\overline {A}}_{\ell }(n)$, which counts the number of overpartitions of $n$ into parts not divisible by $\ell$.

Verb

overpartition (third-person singular simple present overpartitions, present participle overpartitioning, simple past and past participle overpartitioned)

1. (transitive) To divide into too many partitions.