overload
IPA: ˈoʊvɝɫoʊd
noun
- An excessive load.
- The damage done, or the outage caused, by such a load.
- (automotive) An load of goods above the prescribed carrying weight of the vehicle.
- (computing, programming) An overloaded version of a function.
verb
- (transitive) To load excessively.
- (transitive) To provide too much power to a circuit.
- (transitive, object-oriented programming) To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts.
- (intransitive) To fail due to excessive load.
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Examples of "overload" in Sentences
- And also finds that sharing and a sharing overload is a problem.
- Would that be because the info overload is so huuugely tremendous?
- Indeed, information overload is a bigger challenge to consumers today.
- From this moment on, search overload is officially over, the advert says.
- This Halloween, skip the usual pumpkin overload in favor of something more literal.
- "When a defender steps up, it allows you to create two-on-one or three-on-two situations - what we call overload."
- The relationship of explicitness to forewarning about cognitive overload is something that I had never thought of.
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