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Overkill   /ˈoʊvərkˌɪl/   Listen
Overkill

noun
1.
The capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required.
2.
Any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal.





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"Overkill" Quotes from Famous Books



... check at each pass whether the end of the array had been reached. 3. [among users of optimizing compilers] Any technique, usually exploiting knowledge about the compiler, that blocks certain optimizations. Used when explicit mechanisms are not available or are overkill. Typically a hack: "I call a dummy procedure there to force a flush of the optimizer's register-coloring info" can be expressed by the ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0


Words linked to "Overkill" :   effort, capableness, sweat, exertion, travail, capability, elbow grease


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