oversearch
English edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
oversearch (third-person singular simple present oversearches, present participle oversearching, simple past and past participle oversearched)
- (archaic, transitive) To search all over.
- 1861, Robert Greene, George Peele, Alexander Dyce, The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene & George Peele (page 89)
- To oversearch the fearful ocean
- 1861, Robert Greene, George Peele, Alexander Dyce, The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene & George Peele (page 89)
- To search excessively.
- 2003, Dorian Pyle, Business Modeling and Data Mining, page 363:
- Oversearching: If you look long enough and hard enough for any particular pattern in a data set, the more you look, the more likely you are to find it—whether it's meaningful or not.
References edit
- “oversearch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.