# Size Overhead

> The degree to which embedding structural descriptions in data increases its size.

Record: `lexicon:size-overhead`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Declarative Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/declarative-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-size-overhead

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Self-Description](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/self-description.md) and before [Code-as-Data Representation](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/code-as-data-representation.md).

## Category

- [Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/metadata-self-description-declarative-systems.md)

## In tension with

- [Self-Describing Structures](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/self-describing-structures.md)
- [Self-Describing Structures / Size Overhead](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/self-describing-structures-size-overhead.md)

## Linked from

- [Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-metadata-self-description-declarative-systems.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)