underannotate

English

Etymology

From under- +‎ annotate.

Pronunciation

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Verb

underannotate (third-person singular simple present underannotates, present participle underannotating, simple past and past participle underannotated)

1. To provide too few annotations.
   • 1982, James O. Hoge, James L West, James S.W. West, Review, page 153:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 2015, Kelly Gallagher, In the Best Interest of Students, →ISBN:

     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.