override
IPA: ˈoʊvɝraɪd
noun
- 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 programming) 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.
verb
- To ride across or beyond something.
- To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
- To ride a horse too hard.
- To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
- To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
- (object-oriented programming) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
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Examples of "override" in Sentences
- The GG can't override the Queen.
- Sometimes the connotation overrides the denotation.
- The production order overrides the broadcast order.
- The bar is movable to override the gripping of the webbing.
- They have retrieved the override and stopped the meltdowns.
- A magisterial veto was more of a procedural negation or override.
- The distaste of a few cannot override the advantages for the many.
- The potential for distortion can override the validity of the source.
- It is not the job of the editor to override the terminology of the discipline.
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