overloading

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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- /ˈəʊ.və(ɹ)ləʊdɪŋ/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- /ˈəʊ.və(ɹ)ləʊdɪŋ/

Definitions of overloading word

noun Technical meaning of overloading (language) (Or "Operator overloading"). Use of a single symbol to represent operators with different argument types, e.g. "-", used either, as a monadic operator to negate an expression, or as a dyadic operator to return the difference between two expressions. Another example is "+" used to add either integers or floating-point numbers. Overloading is also known as ad-hoc polymorphism. User-defined operator overloading is provided by several modern programming languages, e.g. C++'s class system and the functional programming language Haskell's type classes. Ad-hoc polymorphism (better described as overloading) is the ability to use the same syntax for objects of different types, e.g. "+" for addition of reals and integers or "-" for unary negation or diadic subtraction. Parametric polymorphism allows the same object code for a function to handle arguments of many types but overloading only reuses syntax and requires different code to handle different types. 1
noun overloading (computing) A type of polymorphism, where different functions, operators or variables with the same name are invoked based on the data types of the parameters passed. 0
noun overloading (transport) loading of a vehicle with too heavy a weight. 0
verb overloading present participle of overload. 0

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