2syllables
override
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Definitions ofoverride
1noun
- A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
- A royalty.
- A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
- A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.
1verb
- To ride across or beyond something.
- To ride a horse too hard.
- To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
Example: "The Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law."
- To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
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