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o⋅ver⋅flow
[v. oh-ver-floh; n. oh-ver-floh] 
vərˈfloʊ
verb, -flowed, -flown, -flow⋅ing, noun –verb (used without object)
| 1. | to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage. |
| 2. | to have the contents flowing over or spilling, as an overfull container: Stop pouring or your glass is going to overflow. |
| 3. | to pass from one place or part to another as if flowing from an overfull space: The population overflowed into the adjoining territory. |
| 4. | to be filled or supplied with in great measure: a heart overflowing with gratitude; a region overflowing with orchards and vineyards. |
–verb (used with object)
| 5. | to flow over; flood; inundate: The river overflowed several farms. |
| 6. | to flow over or beyond (the brim, banks, borders, etc.). |
| 7. | to cause to overflow. |
| 8. | to flow over the edge or brim of (a receptacle, container, etc.). |
| 9. | to fill to the point of running over. |
–noun
| 10. | an overflowing: the annual overflow of the Nile. |
| 11. | something that flows or runs over: to carry off the overflow from a fountain. |
| 12. | a portion crowded out of an overfilled place: to house the overflow of the museum's collection in another building. |
| 13. | an excess or superabundance: an overflow of applicants for the job. |
| 14. | an outlet or receptacle for excess liquid: The tank is equipped with an overflow. |
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| o·ver·flow (ō'vər-flō') v. o·ver·flowed, o·ver·flow·ing, o·ver·flows v. intr.
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Overflow
O`ver*flow"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overflowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Overflowing.] [AS. oferfl?wan. See Over, and Flow.]1. To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm. The northern nations overflowed all Christendom. --Spenser. 2. To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.Overflow
O`ver*flow"\, v. i. 1. To run over the bounds. 2. To be superabundant; to abound. --Rogers.Overflow
O"ver*flow`\, n. 1. A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation. --Bacon. 2. That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a superabundance. --Shak. 3. An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid. Overflow meeting, a meeting constituted of the surplus or overflow of another audience.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : overflow
Spanish:
desbordarse, rebosar,
German:
(über)fluten,
Japanese:
あふれる
overflow
bit n.1. [techspeak] A flag on some processors indicating an attempt to calculate a result too large for a register to hold.
2. More generally, an indication of any kind of capacity overload condition. "Well, the Ada description was baroque all right, but I could hack it OK until they got to the exception handling ... that set my overflow bit."
3. The hypothetical bit that will be set if a hacker doesn't get to make a trip to the Room of Porcelain Fixtures: "I'd better process an internal interrupt before the overflow bit gets set."
overflow
pdl n. [MIT] The place where you put things when your PDL is full. If you don't have one and too many things get pushed, you forget something. The overflow pdl for a person's memory might be a memo pad. This usage inspired the following doggerel:Hey, diddle, diddle The overflow pdl To get a little more stack; If that's not enough Then you lose it all, And have to pop all the way back. -The Great Quux
The term `pdl' (see PDL) seems to be primarily an MITism; outside MIT this term is replaced by `overflow stack' (but that wouldn't rhyme with `diddle').
Jargon File 4.2.0
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overflow (v.)
O.E. oferfleow "to flow across, flood, inundate," also "to flow over (a brim or bank)," from ofer "over" + fleow "flow." The noun is attested from 1589.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: over·flow
Pronunciation: 'O-v&r-"flO
Function: noun
: an excessive flow or amount
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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overflow programming
The condition that occurs when the result of a calculation is too big to store in the intended format. For example, the result of adding one to 255 cannot be represented as an unsigned, eight-bit integer. In a signed integer representation, overflow can occur when an integer becomes either too positive or too negative.
Overflow can also occur in the exponent of a floating point number representation. The term "underflow" is sometimes used for negative overflow of the exponent.
Ignoring overflow will result in nonsensicle results such as 255 + 1 = 0. At the hardware level, the ALU typically indicates overflow by setting an overflow flag bit which the program can test. Programming languages will typically respond to overflow by raising some kind of signal or other error condition to halt normal execution.
Some languages attempt to avoid overflow by providing (optional) variable length number representation (multiprecission arithmetic) so that the maximum number representable is limited only by the amount of storage available.
(2008-05-30)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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