Usually means: Excessive load causing system failure.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. overload: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overload: Merriam-Webster
  3. overload: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overload: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overload: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overload: Vocabulary.com
  7. Overload, overload: Wordnik
  8. overload: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Overload: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. overload: Wiktionary
  11. overload: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. overload: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. overload: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. Overload, overload: Dictionary.com
  15. overload (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. overload: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Overload (Anthem album), Overload (Chinese band), Overload (Dot Rotten song), Overload (Georgia Anne Muldrow album), Overload (Harem Scarem album), Overload (Pakistani band), Overload (Sugababes song), Overload (magazine), Overload (novel), Overload (video game), Overload: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Overload: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. overload: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. overload: Rhymezone
  21. overload: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. overload: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. overload: FreeDictionary.org
  24. overload: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. overload: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. overload: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overload: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. overload: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overload: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Overload: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. overload: Electronics
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  4. OVERLOAD: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To load excessively.
verb:  (transitive) To provide too much power to a circuit.
verb:  (transitive, object-oriented programming) To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts.
verb:  (intransitive) To fail due to excessive load.
noun:  An excessive load.
noun:  The damage done, or the outage caused, by such a load.
noun:  (automotive) An load of goods above the prescribed carrying weight of the vehicle.
noun:  (computing, programming) An overloaded version of a function.

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