What does overriding mean?

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over·rid·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant, preponderatingadjective

    having superior power and influence

    "the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism"

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  1. overriding

    Overriding refers to the action of modifying, replacing, or changing the function, method, property, or characteristic of a parent or superclass in a child or subclass to create different behavior. It's commonly used in object-oriented programming, allowing a subclass or child class to provide a distinct implementation of a method that is already defined in its superclass or parent class.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of overriding in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of overriding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of overriding in a Sentence

  1. President Biden:

    Vladimir Putin has one overriding objective : To break NATO, to weaken the Western alliance and to further diminish our ability to compete in the Pacific by working out something with China, and it's not going to happen on my watch.

  2. Mauri Pelto:

    To be able to have the transition take place so fast indicates that climate is overriding the natural cycle of advance and retreat that the glacier would normally be going through.

  3. Jasper Lawler:

    The Chinese government have obviously decided to act on the front foot and prevent the manufacturing sector dropping into contraction, The overriding prospect of more global stimulus will boost risk-taking, push yields down and should feed through into higher demand for equities.

  4. Patty Murray:

    I will be voting to support the agreement to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. I will vote against the resolution of disapproval, and, if needed, I will vote against overriding President (Barack) Obama's veto.

  5. James Johnston:

    I think it is definitely a possibility that some sponsors may seek to terminate their sponsorship entirely, based on overriding hardships, nothing is off the table.

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