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What does overrepresented mean?

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Adjective
  1. represented to an excessive degree, or in excessive numbers
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And there are concerns that minorities are overrepresented on the DNA database.
The repartitions of spacer size for direct and inverted repeats reveal that CDRs are overrepresented as compared with close inverted repeats.
In addition it was claimed that one Member state in particular was overrepresented.
As with other vulnerable groups, people with disabilities were overrepresented among the poor.
Aboriginal offenders continue to be overrepresented among all offenders referred for detention.
By the mid-1990s, however, veterans were underrepresented rather than overrepresented among congresspersons.

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