overriding

verb

  1. 1

    To ride across or beyond something.

  2. 2

    To ride a horse too hard.

  3. 3

    To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.

    The Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law.
  4. 4

    To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.

noun

  1. 1

    The act or process by which something is overridden.

adjective

  1. 1

    Superior, of supreme importance in the case.

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