Usually means: Excessive loads beyond normal capacity.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. overloads: Merriam-Webster
  2. overloads: Collins English Dictionary
  3. overloads: Vocabulary.com
  4. Overloads, overloads: Wordnik
  5. overloads: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. overloads: Wiktionary
  7. overloads: Dictionary.com
  8. overloads: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. overloads: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overloads: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overloads: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overloads: Medical dictionary

(Note: See overload as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (overload)

verb:  (transitive) To load excessively.
verb:  (transitive) To provide too much power to a circuit.
verb:  (transitive, object-oriented programming) To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts.
verb:  (intransitive) To fail due to excessive load.
noun:  An excessive load.
noun:  The damage done, or the outage caused, by such a load.
noun:  (automotive) An load of goods above the prescribed carrying weight of the vehicle.
noun:  (computing, programming) An overloaded version of a function.
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