overload

From over- +‎ load.

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overload (third-person singular simple present overloads, present participle overloading, simple past and past participle overloaded)

1. (transitive) To load excessively.
2. (transitive) To provide too much power to a circuit.
3. (transitive, object-oriented programming) To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts.
4. (intransitive) To fail due to excessive load.

• Category:English words derived from: load (verb)

overload (plural overloads)

1. An excessive load.
2. The damage done, or the outage caused, by such a load.
3. (automotive) An load of goods above the prescribed carrying weight of the vehicle.
   • 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 60:

     We did haul overloads sometimes[.]

4. (computing, programming) An overloaded version of a function.
   • 2005, John C Molluzzo, C++ for business programming:

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

• Glenn Campbell - Wichita Lineman

  I am a lineman for the county and I drive the main road / Searchin' in the sun for another overload

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• Category:English words derived from: load
• overloading (noun)