Overloading

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Overload \O`ver*load"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Overloaded}; p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Overloading}.] [Cf. {Overlade}.]
     To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:



  overloading
       
           (Or "Operator overloading").  Use of a single
          symbol to represent operators with different argument types,
          e.g. "-", used either, as a {monadic} operator to negate an
          expression, or as a {dyadic} operator to return the difference
          between two expressions.  Another example is "+" used to add
          either integers or {floating-point} numbers.  Overloading is
          also known as ad-hoc {polymorphism}.
       
          User-defined operator overloading is provided by several
          modern programming languages, e.g. {C++}'s {class} system and
          the {functional programming} language {Haskell}'s {type
          class}es.
       
          (1995-04-30)