Definition of "override"

override

/əʊ.vəˈɹaɪd/

verb
third-person singular simple present overrides, present participle overriding, simple past overrode, past participle overridden
1. To ride across or beyond something.
  Quotations
  Around 50 people were evacuated from a rush-hour London Overground service on October 12, after an eight-car train overrode the buffers at Enfield Town station.
  2021 October 20, “Network News: Commuter train crashes into buffers at Enfield Town”, in RAIL, number 942, page 8
2. To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
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  Separation of the caboose from the VAN train had caused the train to go into emergency braking and when Extra 3119 West struck the third rack car, the car overrode the locomotive, destroyed the remaining superstructure, and caused the locomotive to overturn the north rail. The near-instantaneous derailment of the rest of the train followed immediately.
  1981 August 18, National Transportation Safety Board, “Collision and Derailment”, in Railroad Accident Report: Rear-End Collision of Union Pacific Railroad Company Freight Trains Extra 3119 West and Extra 8044 West, Near Kelso, California, November 17, 1980‎, archived from the original on 29 March 2022, page 6
3. To ride a horse too hard.
4. To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
  Quotations
  The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said.
  1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg
5. To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
6. (object-oriented programming) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
noun
plural overrides
1. A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
2. A royalty.
3. A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
4. (object-oriented programming) 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.

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