override

Short definition from Wiktionary

Verb

1. 1
   To ride across or beyond something.
2. 2
   To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
3. 3
   To ride a horse too hard.
4. 4
   To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
5. 5
   To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
6. 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. 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.