Overload

Origin

From - + load.

Full definition of overload

Verb

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

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Noun

1. An excessive load.
2. The damage done, or the outage caused by such a load.
3. (computing, programming) An overloaded version of a function.
• 2005, John C Molluzzo, C++ for business programming‎Code an overload of the insertion operator for the Rectangle class.

Derived terms

• information overload

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