Overload

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Overload may refer to:

• The following terms of technology:
  • Electrical overload, a situation where an electrical machine or system is subjected to a greater load than it was designed for
  • Function overloading, a software engineering process whereby multiple functions of different types are defined with the same name
  • Information overload, the psychology term for the state of having too much information to make a decision or remain informed about a topic
  • Mechanical overload, when a component is stressed to failure in one event
  • Operator overloading, a software engineering process whereby operators are treated as polymorphic functions having different behaviours depending on the types of arguments used
  • Overloaded expression
  • Method overloading
  • Type polymorphism or overloading, in computer science, allowing a single definition to be used with different classes of objects
• Audio Overload, an audio player that plays music from various video game music audio files
• Overload (Transformers), fictional character
• Overload (Chinese rock band) (超载乐队), a Chinese rock band
• Overload (2003 song), a dance song by Voodoo and Serano
• Overload (song), a pop song by the UK girl group Sugababes
• "Overload", a song by Raven from their 1987 album Life's a Bitch
• Overload (novel), a novel by Arthur Hailey
• Overloading (chess)
• Iron overload disorder
• Sensory overload