overheads
overheads is a polysyllabic word with 2 syllables. Using the Knuth-Liang algorithm, we calculated the hyphenation for the word you’ve entered. However, this hyphenation has not been verified against authoritative sources and may be approximate. This is because the algorithm relies on pre-defined patterns that may not cover all exceptions, contextual variations, or irregular spellings. We are working to verify hyphenations against trusted sources to ensure greater accuracy. For now, overheads is hyphenated as:
Definitions ofoverheads
- The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to the progress or outcome of the project or activity.
- Wasted money.
- A smash.
- The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
- A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
- The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
- Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
Example: "Network overhead is the header data that is required to route and transport data over network, whereas fork overhead is the additional time and memory cost of creating and managing new processes within operating system."
- (by ellipsis) An overhead throw.
- An overhead projector.
- A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
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