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The correct spelling is override.
How to pronounce override
noun
IPA: /əʊ.vəˈɹaɪd/
Say it like: Ove-rri-de
The correct spelling is override. A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control. For example: "The Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law."
Usage Examples
“The Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law.”
Meanings
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.
verb
- 1.To ride across or beyond something.
- 2.To ride a horse too hard.
- 3.To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
- 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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