overload
noun
No English definition recorded for this entry.
L324884 on Wikidata ↗verb
- to load with too great a burden
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈəʊvəˌləʊd/ / /ˈoʊvɚˌloʊd/ / /ˈəʉvəˌləʉd/ / /ˌəʊvəˈləʊd/ / /ˌoʊvɚˈloʊd/ / /ˌəʉvəˈləʉd/
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English load English overload From over- + load.
- An excessive load.
“If this last verbal overload has proven anything, it is that Rocko's Modern Life played better than it reads.”
- The damage done, or the outage caused, by such a load.
- An load of goods above the prescribed carrying weight of the vehicle.
“We did haul overloads sometimes[.]”
- An overloaded version of a function.
“Code an overload of the insertion operator for the Rectangle class.”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English load English overload From over- + load.
- To load excessively.
- To provide too much power to a circuit.
- To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts.
- To fail due to excessive load.