overload

B2 · Upper Intermediate Science

v. to put too much weight on a vehicle or too much electricity through a wire.

v. to supply an excessive physical load or electrical current to a device or circuit, potentially causing failure.

“If you plug too many appliances into one socket, you might overload the circuit.”

“The safety inspector warned that the crane would overload if they attempted to lift the entire steel frame at once.”

C1 · Advanced Computing Technical

v. to use the same name for different computer functions that do different things.

v. to define multiple functions or operators with the same name but different signatures or implementations.

“In this language, you can overload the plus sign to join strings together.”

“The developer decided to overload the constructor to allow the object to be initialized with either a string or an integer.”

B2 · Upper Intermediate Countable noun

n. a situation where there is too much of something to deal with.

n. an amount of something that exceeds the capacity of a system or person to process or carry it.

“The website crashed because of an information overload during the sale.”

“The pilot suffered from sensory overload as multiple alarms began to sound simultaneously in the cockpit.”