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Verb: overfit (overfitted,overfitting)
  1. (data analysis) fit a model with too many parameters relative to the size of the sample, so that noise is fit as well as signal (leading to too good a fit with the sample data but a poor fit with typical new data)

Derived forms: overfits, overfitting

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