overload

verb

1. (transitive)To load excessively.
2. (transitive)To provide too much power to a circuit.
3. (transitive)To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts.
4. (intransitive)To fail due to excessive load.

noun

1. An excessive load.

   “If this last verbal overload has proven anything, it is that Rocko's Modern Life played better than it reads.”

2. The damage done, or the outage caused, by such a load.
3. An load of goods above the prescribed carrying weight of the vehicle.

   “We did haul overloads sometimes[.]”

4. An overloaded version of a function.

   “Code an overload of the insertion operator for the Rectangle class.”