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Overrides

A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.

📖 Definitions of "Overrides"

noun
  1. 1

    A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.

  2. 2

    A royalty.

  3. 3

    A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.

  4. 4

    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.

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.

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