Usually means: Typing one character over another.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word overstrike:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. overstrike: Merriam-Webster
  2. overstrike: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overstrike: Collins English Dictionary
  4. overstrike: Wordnik
  5. overstrike: Wiktionary
  6. overstrike: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Overstrike, overstrike: Dictionary.com
  8. Overstrike (numismatics), Overstrike: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Overstrike: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. overstrike: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Overstrike: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. overstrike: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. overstrike: FreeDictionary.org
  14. overstrike: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Overstrike: Numismatic Dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. overstrike: CCI Computer
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. overstrike: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (overstrike)

verb:  (obsolete, reflexive) To overreach oneself while striking.
verb:  (transitive) To cover up (a design, mark etc.) by stamping another on top of it; to superimpose a mark or logo on (a coin, stamp, etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To strike (something) too hard.
noun:  (numismatics) A coin that has been overstruck, i.e. coined more than once.
noun:  (typography) The printing of one character over another, as - on top of L to produce Ł.
noun:  (computing, uncountable) overtype (feature where input replaces existing characters instead of being inserted before them)

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