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overriding

verb

Meaning

  • 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.

    "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.

noun

Meaning

  • The act or process by which something is overridden.

adjective

Meaning

  • Superior, of supreme importance in the case.