OVERRIDE
override
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.
Verb
- To ride across or beyond something.
- To ride a horse too hard.
- To counteract the normal operation of something.
- The Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law.
- To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
- How the cat runs is defined in the method
run()
of the classCat
, which overrides the same method with the same signature of superclass calledMammal
.
- How the cat runs is defined in the method
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