Abundance vs Overload - What's the difference?
abundance | overload |
A large quantity; many.
An overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness.
* (rfdate) (Sir Walter Raleigh)
Wealth; affluence; plentiful amount of resources.
Frequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample.
(card games) A bid to take nine or more tricks in solo whist.
to load excessively
to provide too much power to a circuit
(computer science) to create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts
to fail due to excessive load
An excessive load.
The damage done, or the outage caused by such a load.
(computing, programming) An overloaded version of a function.
* 2005 , John C Molluzzo, C++ for business programming?
As nouns the difference between abundance and overload
is that abundance is a large quantity; many while overload is an excessive load.As a verb overload is
to load excessively.abundance
English
(wikipedia abundance)Alternative forms
* (obsolete) abundaunce * (obsolete) habundance * (obsolete) boundance * (card games) abondanceNoun
(en noun)- It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state.
Usage notes
* Synonym notes: Abundance , Plenty]], [[exuberance, Exuberance. These words rise upon each other in expressing the idea of fullness. ** Plenty'' denotes a sufficiency to supply every want; as, ''plenty'' of food, ''plenty of money, etc. ** Abundance'' express more, and gives the idea of superfluity or excess; as, ''abundance'' of riches, an ''abundance of wit and humor; often, however, it only denotes plenty in a high degree. ** Exuberance'' rises still higher, and implies a bursting forth on every side, producing great superfluity or redundance; as, an ''exuberance'' of mirth, an ''exuberance of animal spirits, etc.Synonyms
* exuberance, plenteousness, plenty, copiousness, overflow, riches, affluence, wealthReferences
overload
English
Verb
(en verb)Noun
(en noun)- Code an overload of the insertion operator for the Rectangle class.