override

Meanings

Verb

• To ride across or beyond something.
• To ride a horse too hard.
• To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
• To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.

Noun

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

Origin

• From Middle English overriden, from Old English oferrīdan, equivalent to over- + ride. Cognate with Dutch overrijden, German überreiten, Danish override.