overload

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To load excessively.

2. 2

   To provide too much power to a circuit.

3. 3

   To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts.

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   1. 4

      To fail due to excessive load.

   2. 5

      An excessive load.

      • If this last verbal overload has proven anything, it is that Rocko's Modern Life played better than it reads.
   3. 6

      The damage done, or the outage caused, by such a load.

   4. 7

      An load of goods above the prescribed carrying weight of the vehicle.

      • We did haul overloads sometimes[.]
   5. 8

      An overloaded version of a function.

      • Code an overload of the insertion operator for the Rectangle class.

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