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Still a certain amount of overengineering was built into the design, even beyond double-overage.

The single greatest danger in public speaking is losing authenticity by overengineering your talk.

The amount of overengineering a product can tolerate depends on what the product is.

Overengineering generally occurs in high-end products or specialized market criteria, and takes various forms.

It is yet another example of the sort of fussy overengineering that BMW used to disdain.

The amount of overengineering Ford can accept is diminishing, and as a result the amount of risk the company must tolerate is increasing.

Sony, in particular, is paying a high price for its overengineering, which stems from the last excesses of the era of the console’s godfather, Ken Kutaragi.

But with this overengineering comes excess weight-and the resulting loss in fuel efficiency makes flights more expensive than they otherwise could be while also causing them to generate greater carbon emissions.

To be sure, driving these ultra-low-profile Z-rated tires onto raw Russian roads would be as wise as wearing Cinderella's glass slipper on the Appalachian Trail, but there was no mistaking that Mercedes feel of extravagant overengineering.

The apparent overengineering of this safety system was due to the fact that the launch escape system, which depended on the Q-ball data, was armed 5 minutes before launch, so retraction of the Q-ball cover was a life-critical part of a possible pad abort.

They are the end product of a great deal of over-engineering.

And from a pilot’s point of view, over-engineering is good.”

That's called over-engineering, and it's the way to go.

Regulators, however, have been sceptical that such deals are actually anything more than fancy financial over-engineering.

This can be a better solution than over-engineering the components to high precision and results in a more robust design.

On the other hand, the cost of over-engineering can be considerable if strength is built into the structure or mooring where it isn't needed.

It is a testament to conservative over-engineering: this was one bridge they didn't want to collapse under the weight of a train.

Thus, when embarking on a second system, an engineer should be mindful that they are susceptible to over-engineering it.

But through a series of low order physics probabilities and the "over-engineering" of the suits he had survived.

The sliding design is classic over-engineering.

They found, however, that over-engineering the climate could actually be detrimental as tropical corals do not favour overly-cool conditions.

IF THE past decade’s financial over-engineering was a crime, rating agencies were the getaway drivers.

Clearly, such over-engineering provides a foundation for duplicating the proposed bridge in the future and then opening both bridges to car, bus and truck traffic.

This engineering, some said over-engineering, had stood O'Neal in good stead on Diess.

The disputes generally revolved around the Germans' high but expensive quality standards for buildings and machines, which were called "over-engineering" by the Russians.

Stop Over-Engineering!

National Grid reckons that compensating for that uncertainty of supply will require a huge amount of over-engineering.

As with BMW's Z4 35is I tested last year, there seem to be too many layers of over-engineering between the driver's hands and the road.

But advocates of space exploration say there has to be an alternative to what they see as the expensive, bureaucratic over-engineering of NASA.

The Audi A6 Avant, below, is proof that traditional German over-engineering and interior quality is not a thing of the past.

As Tank editor-in-chief, Masoud Golsorkhi, points out, cigarette packaging is "an example of gross over-engineering – it lasts much longer than you need it to."

PMadm stands for Port Monitor Admin, and it's part of a ridiculously complicated bit of software over-engineering that is destined to make everybody an expert.

The Basel Committee issued a letter about such securitisation deals in December, effectively warning banks that over-engineering purely to reap regulatory capital benefits would not be tolerated.

XCOFF (eXtended COmmon Object File Format)is typical IBM's over-engineering.

"We wanted to address the widening gap of participation in the Information Age between the digerati and those feeling left out by complicated over-engineering," Jerry Fan, Founding Partner, Social42, explains.