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overload

noun

Meaning

  1. An excessive load.
  2. The damage done, or the outage caused by such a load.
  3. An overloaded version of a function.
  4. To load excessively
  5. To provide too much power to a circuit
  6. To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts
  7. To fail due to excessive load

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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