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overloading

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Overload \O`ver*load"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overloaded; p. pr.
& vb. n. Overloading.] [Cf. Overlade.]
To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.
[1913 Webster]

FOLDOC overloading

(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
class}es.

(1995-04-30)