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underannotate en · VERB

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Etymology

From under- + annotate.

Meanings

1. To provide too few annotations.
   • We further demonstrated this point by artificially underannotating the well-annotated POSSUM and Orphanet syndromes, through the random elimination of half the annotated features per syndrome. 2009 December, Martin Oti, Martijn A. Huynen, Han G. Brunner, “The Biological Coherence of Human Phenome Databases”, in American Journal of Human Genetics, volume 85, number 6:
   • I do tell them that if they overannotate they will kill the book, and that if they underannotate they will not get to levels of deeper reading. 2015, Kelly Gallagher, In the Best Interest of Students, →ISBN:
   • And in an engagingly old-fashioned way McFarland aggressively underannotates the chapter, so that nonadepts will be unable to steal fruit from this orchard without acknowledging its source. 1982, James O. Hoge, James L West, James S.W. West, Review, page 153:

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