overflow

1 a large flow [syn: flood, outpouring]

2 the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity [syn: runoff, overspill]

1 flow or run over (a limit or brim) [syn: 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, spill over] [also: overflown]

English

Etymology

over + flow

Noun

1. The spillage resultant from overflow; excess.

Translations

• Spanish: desbordamiento

Verb

1. To fill beyond the limits of a container or system.
2. To compute a number outside the range of a register which is holding it.

Translations

• Dutch: overstromen
• Spanish: rebosar

Derived terms

• buffer overflow

Overflow may refer to:

Computing/Telecommunications

• Overflow condition, a situation that occurs when more information is being transmitted than the hardware can handle
• arithmetic overflow, a condition that occurs when a calculation produces a result that is greater than what a given register can store or represent
• stack overflow in which a computer program makes too many subroutine calls and its call stack runs out of space
• Buffer overflow, a situation whereby the incoming data size exceeds that which can be accommodated by a buffer
• 0verflow, a Japanese eroge developer
• Overflow (software), a NASA-developed computational fluid dynamics program using overset (Chimera) grids
• Overflow,a punk band from Koprivnica,Hrvatska

Water

• Porcelator, a drain in a sink to reduce the likelihood of water spillage, termed an "overflow" in the UK
• Sanitary sewer overflow, a condition whereby untreated sewage is discharged into the environment, escaping wastewater treatment

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