overplot

overplot

(ˌəʊvəˈplɒt)
vb (tr) , -plots, -plotting or -plotted
1. to plot onto an existing graph or map
2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) literature to offer an excessively elaborate plot for
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"You overplot them, and they're doing the exact same thing over time."
To compare the growth history of SMBHs and that of galaxies, we overplot the star-forming-rate density and steller-mass density in Figs.
In these chapters, Baym offers an all-encompassing thesis about nineteenth-century women's literature and presents a single overplot for all of women's antebellum novels.
He argues that while individual histories can be effective, "it is the perception that they constitute a dramatic series with an internal logic and a grand overplot that gives them special distinction in the world repertoire" (4).
In the left column of Figure 5,weplotthe Tenerife stacked data at 15 GHz for the 10 declinations presented in this paper and overplot in green the contribution from point sources to the data.
The overplot of Four Girls is that of a travel narrative, (5) replete with techniques borrowed from the local color genre.
Novels such as Sally Wood's Dorval (1801) and Rebecca Rush's Kelroy (1812) had included bankruptcies as strategic plot elements and as symbols for women's vulnerability, (5) while Nina Baym has pointed out that loss of material support forms an important element of what she calls the "overplot" for nearly all antebellum domestic fiction, a device that forces the heroine to develop independence and to make her own way in the world (16).