Circumvent vs Override - What's the difference?
circumvent | override |
to avoid or get around something; to bypass
to surround or besiege
to outwit or outsmart
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 circumvent and override
is that circumvent is to avoid or get around something; to bypass while override is to ride across or beyond something.As a noun override is
a mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.circumvent
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(en verb)override
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- 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.
