override

Verb

override (third-person singular simple present overrides, present participle overriding, simple past overrode, past participle overridden)

1. (transitive) To ride across or beyond something.
   • Around 50 people were evacuated from a rush-hour London Overground service on October 12, after an eight-car train overrode the buffers at Enfield Town station.2021 October 20, “Network News: Commuter train crashes into buffers at Enfield Town”, in RAIL, number 942, page 8
2. (transitive) To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
   • Separation of the caboose from the VAN train had caused the train to go into emergency braking and when Extra 3119 West struck the third rack car, the car overrode the locomotive, destroyed the remaining superstructure, and caused the locomotive to overturn the north rail. The near-instantaneous...1981 August 18, National Transportation Safety Board, “Collision and Derailment”, in Railroad Accident Report: Rear-End Collision of Union Pacific Railroad Company Freight Trains Extra 3119 West and...
3. (transitive) To ride a horse too hard.
4. (intransitive, transitive) To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
   • In automotive design, safety should override lesser factors such as cosmetics and corner-cutting.
   • Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law.
5. (transitive) To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
   • Manual controls allow the user to override the camera's default settings.
6. (transitive, 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.
   • How the cat runs is defined in the method run() of the class Cat, which overrides the same method with the same signature of superclass called Mammal.

Noun

UK/ˈəʊ.vəˌɹaɪd/US/ˈoʊ.vɚˌɹaɪd/

override (plural overrides)

1. A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
   • The bill passed with 72 members voting for the override and 46 against.2024 December 11, Arit John, “North Carolina’s GOP-controlled legislature erodes incoming Democrats’ political powers”, in CNN
2. A royalty.
3. A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
4. (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.