Overlap vs Override - What's the difference?
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To extend over and partly cover something.
To have an area, range, character or function in common.
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(mathematics) Used of sets that have some elements in common.
Something that overlaps or is overlapped
(rugby) a situation in the game where an attacking line has more players in it than the defensive line coming to meet it. The attacking side may exploit the overlap'' by using their superior numbers to break the opposition's defensive line. If attackers outnumber defenders by more than one player this is often termed a ''two man overlap'' or ''three man overlap'', etc. If the attacking side fails to break through usually due to poor execution, they are said to ''waste an overlap .
To ride across or beyond something.
To ride a horse too hard.
To counteract the normal operation of something.
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(programming, object-oriented) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
A royalty.
A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
As verbs the difference between overlap and override
is that overlap is to extend over and partly cover something while override is to ride across or beyond something.As nouns the difference between overlap and override
is that overlap is something that overlaps or is overlapped while override is a mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.overlap
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(wikipedia overlap)Verb
(overlapp) (intransitive)- the mousemat overlapped the edge of the desk
- The two maps overlapped at the east and west edges
- Memento unfolds over 22 scenes—or, more accurately, 22 strands of time, the main strand (in color) moving backward in increments, and another strand (in black and white) going forward, though the two overlap profoundly.
- The set (all men) overlaps the set (vegetarians)
Noun
(en noun)override
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Verb
- The Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law .
- The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said.
- How the cat runs is defined in the method
run()of the classCat, which overrides the same method with the same signature of superclass calledMammal.
