override

UK /əʊ.vəˈɹaɪd/ · US /oʊ.vɚˈɹaɪd/ verb, noun

Forms overrides overriding overrode overridden

1. verb (transitive) To ride across or beyond something.
2. verb (transitive) To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
3. verb (transitive) To ride a horse too hard.
4. verb (transitive, intransitive) To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority. “In automotive design, safety should override lesser factors such as cosmetics and corner-cutting.”
5. verb (transitive) To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system “Manual controls allow the user to override the camera's default settings.”
6. verb (object-oriented programming, transitive) 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 class Cat, which overrides the same method with the same signature of superclass called Mammal.”
7. noun A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
8. noun A royalty.
9. noun A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
10. noun (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.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “override”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details