Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In photography, a development continued too long, or done with an excitant of too great strength.
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Examples
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This investment – coupled with a strong restoration plan guided by sound science – would enable the Gulf to begin restoring the region’s ecosystem, which has been systematically degraded by decades of over-development.
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On his website, Sahner insists his project is not an effort to document what is bound to be lost by over-development, an ethos of sites like Jeremiah's Vanishing New York.
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"In this world of technology, over-development, fewer trees and more concrete," says Sayeg, "it is empowering to be able to beautify your environment."
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Skeletons of archers from that period have been uncovered who had bone spurs in their right arms as a result of muscle over-development through a lifetime of training to pull and fire the massive bows.
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"It's avoided the syndrome of over-development and over-sophistication," she said.
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The letters object to over-development of the site, increase in noise and traffic, loss of privacy for neighbours, among other objections.
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He remains staunch in his defense of preservation of the natural landscape — in Door County or any rural landscape threatened by over-development and crass commercialism.
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More people became actively involved in finding ways to save the planet from self-destructive pollution and over-development.
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Instead, this discipline considers man's impact on nature and often works to restore areas that have been impacted by over-development or significant environmental disasters, like earthquakes or hurricanes.
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The link the U.S. insurers made is not between global warming and disasters, but between over-development in threatened areas and the costliness of disasters, requiring government intervention.
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