overriding
Dictionary
verb
- To ride across or beyond something.
- To ride a horse too hard.
- To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
"The Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law."
- To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
noun
- The act or process by which something is overridden.
adjective
- Superior, of supreme importance in the case.
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