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override

Short definition from Wiktionary

Verb

  1. To ride across or beyond something.
  2. To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
  3. To ride a horse too hard.
  4. To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
  5. To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
  6. To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.

Noun

  1. A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
  2. A royalty.
  3. A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
  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.

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