Meaning of Overhead | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
   uncountable
2. An overhead projector.
   countable
3. The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
   countable
4. A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
   countable
5. Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.
   uncountable
6. Wasted money.
   uncountable
7. A smash.
   countable, uncountable
8. The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
   countable, uncountable
9. A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
   countable, uncountable
10. The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
    countable, uncountable
11. Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
    countable, uncountable
12. An overhead throw.
    countable, uncountable
13. A type of bridge, also commonly known as an overpass or flyover, which carries one form of traffic over another.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“There was no room left in the overheads for our luggage, our seats did not recline, and the washrooms were right behind us.”

“Network overhead is the header data that is required to route and transport data over the network, whereas fork overhead is the additional time and memory cost of creating and managing new processes within the operating system.”

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