Overload vs Overloaded - What's the difference?
overload | overloaded |
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?
(overload)
loaded too heavily
of a word, having multiple meanings depending on context
(computing) of a name, used for more than one variable or procedure etc; differentiated by the compiler based on context
As verbs the difference between overload and overloaded
is that overload is to load excessively while overloaded is past tense of overload.As a noun overload
is an excessive load.As an adjective overloaded is
loaded too heavily.overload
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(en noun)- Code an overload of the insertion operator for the Rectangle class.