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The term overloading may refer to:
- Constructor and function/method overloading, in computer science, a type of polymorphism where different functions with the same name are invoked based on the data types or the parameters passed
- Operator overloading, a form of functional or method overloading where the action being overloaded is an operator, such as
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- Operator overloading, a form of functional or method overloading where the action being overloaded is an operator, such as
- Overloading (chess), a tactical theme arising out of an opponent piece performing more than one defensive task in the game
- Overloading, in weight training, refers to performing exercises with higher resistance than the muscles can handle, causing microtrauma which leads to hypertrophy or muscle growth
- Semantic overload, the general concept in linguistics, of which function overloading is a specific case