override
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- Verb:
- Noun:
override (overrides, present participle overriding; past overrode, past participle overridden)
- To ride across or beyond something.
- To ride a horse too hard.
- To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
- The Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473 ↗:
- The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said.
- (object-oriented) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
- How the cat runs is defined in the method
run()
of the classCat
, which overrides the same method with the same signature of superclass calledMammal
.
- How the cat runs is defined in the method
- French: outrepasser
- Italian: oltrepassare
- French: outrepasser
- German: übersteuern
- Italian: forzare, bypassare
- Portuguese: sobrepor
- French: redéfinir
- German: überschreiben
- Italian: ridefinire
- Portuguese: sobrepor
override (plural overrides)
- A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
- A royalty.
- A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
- (object-oriented) A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.
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