overflow
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
overflow
n 1: a large flow [syn: {flood}, {overflow}, {outpouring}]
2: the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the
limit or capacity [syn: {overflow}, {runoff}, {overspill}]
v 1: flow or run over (a limit or brim) [syn: {overflow},
{overrun}, {well over}, {run over}, {brim over}]
2: overflow with a certain feeling; "The children bubbled over
with joy"; "My boss was bubbling over with anger" [syn:
{bubble over}, {overflow}, {spill over}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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The northern nations overflowed all Christendom.
--Spenser.
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2. To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Overflow \O"ver*flow`\, n.
1. A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation.
--Bacon.
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2. That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a
superabundance. --Shak.
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3. An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid.
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{Overflow meeting}, a meeting constituted of the surplus or
overflow of another audience.
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from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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)
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
179 Moby Thesaurus words for "overflow":
abound, abundance, affluence, alluvion, alluvium,
ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, avalanche, bonanza,
bountifulness, bountiousness, bristle with, bumper crop, cascade,
cataclysm, cataract, cloud of words, congestion, copiousness,
crawl with, creep with, deluge, diffuseness, diffusion,
diffusiveness, drown, effusion, effusiveness, engorgement, engulf,
engulfment, extravagance, exuberance, exuberate, fecundity,
fertility, fill, flood, flooding, flow, fluency, foison,
formlessness, full measure, fullness, generosity, generousness,
glut, great abundance, great plenty, gush, gushing, hyperemia,
inundate, inundation, know no bounds, landslide, lavishness,
liberality, liberalness, logorrhea, lots, luxuriance, luxuriate,
macrology, maximum, more than enough, much, myriad, myriads,
numerousness, opulence, opulency, outpour, outpouring, overabound,
overabundance, overbrim, overbrimming, overburden, overcharge,
overfill, overflowing, overfreight, overfullness, overgrow,
overkill, overload, overmuch, overplus, overrun, overrunning,
overspill, overspread, overswarm, overweight, overwhelm, palilogy,
plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, pleonasm,
plethora, pour, pour out, pour over, prevalence, prodigality,
productiveness, productivity, profuseness, profusion, proliferate,
prolificacy, prolificity, pullulate, quantities, rain, rampancy,
rankness, redundancy, reiteration, reiterativeness,
repetition for effect, repetitiveness, repleteness, repletion,
rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, run over,
run riot, satiety, saturation, scads, shower, slop, slosh, spate,
spill, spill out, spill over, spillage, stream, submerge,
submersion, substantiality, substantialness, superabound,
superabundance, superfluity, superflux, supersaturation, surcharge,
surfeit, surplus, surplusage, swamp, swarm, swarm with, sweep,
talkativeness, tautology, teem, teem with, teemingness, the Deluge,
the Flood, tirade, torrent, washout, wealth, well, whelm,
whelming
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