Underspecified vs Overspecified - What's the difference?
underspecified | overspecified |
(underspecify)
To give insufficient, or insufficiently precise, information: to specify incompletely.
(overspecify)
To specify in excessive detail.
:The customer overspecified the requirements and now we're contractually required to build it this way. Does he think he's an engineer?
To specify excessive capability.
:As usual the customer overspecified the requirements, it's like asking for a car that seats 20 and fits in a compact car's parking space.
To provide redundant or inconsistent information.
:An overspecified truth table contains at least one decision that will never be executed because it is already specified in a previous decision...
:A noun phrase is overspecified when it is used in a context where a pronoun would have been unambiguous.