Overmine
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To mine excessively. transitive
- 2 To view an object in terms of its effects on or relationships with others, in object-oriented ontology.
"We can even go further: when we consider an object in everyday life we do not usually just undermine or overmine it as if it demanded an either/or approach, but rather we run the two processes in tandem: duomining, as Harman labels it."
Example
More examples"We can even go further: when we consider an object in everyday life we do not usually just undermine or overmine it as if it demanded an either/or approach, but rather we run the two processes in tandem: duomining, as Harman labels it."
Etymology
From over- + mine.
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