function overloading

Meanings

nounfunction overloading (usually uncountable, plural function overloadings)

uncountableusuallyobject-oriented programmingA feature that allows creating several functions or methods with the same name differing in the type of the input and the output parameters.
Synonyms: method overloading, multiple dispatch, multidispatch

nounA feature that allows creating several functions or methods with the same name differing in the type of the input and the output parameters.

Also see

Greek υπερφόρτωση συνάρτησης

Polish przeciążanie funkcji

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