overload

An excessive load.

Noun

  1. An excessive load.
    • If this last verbal overload has proven anything, it is that Rocko's Modern Life played better than it reads. - 2005, Hal Erickson, Television Cartoon Shows: The shows, M-Z, page 677:
  2. The damage done, or the outage caused, by such a load.
  3. An load of goods above the prescribed carrying weight of the vehicle.
    • We did haul overloads sometimes[.] - 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 60:
  4. An overloaded version of a function.
    • Code an overload of the insertion operator for the Rectangle class. - 2005, John C Molluzzo, C++ for business programming:

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English load English overload From over- + load.

Forms

overloads

Related

overloading

Derived

information overload progressive overload sensory overload

Verb

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

Forms

overloads overloading overloaded

Derived

overloadability overloadable overloader