Overflow
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Overflow may refer to:
[edit] Computing/Telecommunications
- Overflow condition, a situation that occurs when more information is being transmitted than the hardware can handle
- arithmetic overflow, a condition that occurs when a calculation produces a result that is greater than what a given register can store or represent
- stack overflow in which a computer program makes too many subroutine calls and its call stack runs out of space
- Buffer overflow, a situation whereby the incoming data size exceeds that which can be accommodated by a buffer
- 0verflow, a Japanese eroge developer
- Overflow (software), a NASA-developed computational fluid dynamics program using overset (Chimera) grids
- Overflow,a punk band from Koprivnica,Hrvatska
[edit] Water
- Porcelator, a drain in a sink to reduce the likelihood of water spillage, termed an "overflow" in the UK
- Sanitary sewer overflow, a condition whereby untreated sewage is discharged into the environment, escaping wastewater treatment