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- verb To
specify inexcessive detail . - verb To specify excessive
capability . - verb To provide
redundant orinconsistent information.
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Examples
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If you overspecify the "right" involved, it's easy to say the Constitution doesn't provide for it.
Balkinization 2007
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The important thing is not to overspecify that number here, but simply to recognize that the EPA already tracks all the data necessary to calculate the fossil efficiency of a marginal generator on the grid-which in turn means that it is very straightforward for them to provide this number every year, and provide FERS credits accordingly based on actual fossil fuel displaced.
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This is an example of the problem with doctest -- it's easy to overspecify the tests.
Planet Python 2008
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