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Overload

Noun CEFR C2 Standard
ˌəʊvəˈləʊd

Definitions

  1. An excessive load.
  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.
  4. An overloaded version of a function.

Equivalents

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Examples

“We did haul overloads sometimes[.]”
“Code an overload of the insertion operator for the Rectangle class.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

Overload-proof overloadability overloadedness overloader Overloading Overloads

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