overload

Verb

overload (third-person singular simple present overloads, present participle overloading, simple past and past participle overloaded)

1. (transitive) To load excessively.
2. (transitive) To provide too much power to a circuit.
3. (transitive, object-oriented programming) To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts.
4. (intransitive) To fail due to excessive load.

Noun

UK/ˈəʊvəˌləʊd/US/ˈoʊvɚˌloʊd/

overload (plural overloads)

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