Overflow

Overflow may refer to:

Computing and telecommunications

• Buffer overflow, a situation whereby the incoming data size exceeds that which can be accommodated by a buffer
• Stack overflow in which a computer program makes too many subroutine calls and its call stack runs out of space
• Heap overflow
• Arithmetic overflow, a condition that occurs when a calculation produces a result that is greater than what a given register can store or represent
• Overflow condition, a situation that occurs when more information is being transmitted than the hardware can handle
• 0verflow, a Japanese eroge developer
• Overflow (software), a NASA-developed computational fluid dynamics program using overset (Chimera) grids

Water

• Overflow, A situation observed on frozen rivers when the water flowing beneath the ice seeps up through cracks in the ice. Occurs as the ice cover on the river thickens, freezing steadily downward toward the river bed, and the space available for water to flow is decreased, causing increased flow velocities and pressure. Overflow and the patches of open water and wet snow associated with it are problematic for travel on rivers in cold climates.

• Sanitary sewer overflow, a condition whereby untreated sewage is discharged into the environment, escaping wastewater treatment