overload

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Verb

overload (overloads, present participle overloading; past and past participle overloaded)

1. (transitive) to load excessively
2. (transitive) to provide too much power to a circuit
3. (transitive, object-oriented) 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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• English words derived from

Translations

• French: surcharger
• German: überladen, überlasten
• Italian: sovraccaricare
• Portuguese: sobrecarregar
• Russian: перегружа́ть
• Spanish: sobrecargar

Translations

• German: überlasten, überladen
• Italian: sovraccaricare

Translations

• French: surcharger
• German: überladen

Translations

• German: überlastet sein

Noun

overload (plural overloads)

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.

Related terms

• English words derived from
• overloading (noun)

Translations

• German: Überladung
• Russian: перегру́зка

Translations

• German: Überladung

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