Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A surplus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A sum or quantity over; surplus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
sum orquantity over ;surplus .
Etymologies
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over- + sum
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The algorithm was originally written for fetching exact sum only, but has been widened to get closest of undersum or oversum, if exact sum is not found.
SQLblog.com - The SQL Server blog spot on the web Hugo Kornelis 2008
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