Overload

Overload or overloaded may refer to:

Music

Bands

• Overload (Swedish band), a heavy metal band from Bollnäs, Sweden
• Overload (Pakistani band), a Pakistani rock band from Lahore, Punjab, formed in 2003
• Overload (Chinese band), Chinese rock / thrash metal band
• Overload Generation (formerly Overload), English boy band

Albums

• Overload (Overload album), the debut album by the Pakistani rock band Overload, released in 2006
• Overload (Anthem album), Japanese heavy metal band Anthem's third studio album
• Overload (Harem Scarem album), a 2005 album by the Canadian hard rock band Harem Scarem
• Overloaded: The Singles Collection, a greatest hits compilation album by the Sugababes

Songs

• "Overload" (Voodoo and Serano song), a 2003 dance song by Voodoo and Serano
• "Overload" (Sugababes song), a 2000 pop song by the UK girl group Sugababes
• "Overload" (Dot Rotten song), a 2012 grime/dubstep song by rapper Dot Rotten
• "Overload", a song by Raven from their 1987 album Life's a Bitch
• Overload, a song released by Life of Dillon
• "The Overload", a song by Talking Heads from their 1980 album Remain in Light

Medical

• Iron overload disorder
• Sensory overload, occurs when one or more of the body's senses experiences over-stimulation from the environment

Technology

• Computer science terms
  • Function overloading, a software engineering process whereby multiple functions of different types are defined with the same name
  • Operator overloading, a software engineering process whereby operators such as + or - are treated as polymorphic functions having different behaviours depending on the types of arguments used
  • Type polymorphism or overloading, in computer science, allowing a single definition to be used with different classes of objects
  • Overloaded expression is an ambiguous operator expression can only be understood based on the context
• Computing systems
  • Overload, Overload control, Overload protection describe the condition and its handling of a system being used up to its limits of capacity so that it can hardly perform its specified function anymore
• Electrical terms
  • Overcurrent, a situation where an electrical machine or system is subjected to a greater load than it was designed for
• Overvoltage, when the voltage of a circuit is raised above its upper design limit
  • Overload protection for power supplies
• Information overload, the psychology term for the state of having too much information to make a decision or remain informed about a topic
• Mechanical overload (engineering), when a component is stressed to failure in one event
• Overload (magazine), a software development journal

Other

• Overload (novel), a 1979 novel by Arthur Hailey
• Overload (CSI episode), an episode from the second season of the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• Overload (Transformers), fictional character
• Overload (Teen Titans), a character from the Teen Titans animated series
• Overload (convention), a comic and manga convention held in Auckland, New Zealand