Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word OVERHEAD

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Definitions of OVERHEAD

1. located above, especially over the head
2. A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
3. Above one's head; in the sky.
4. (soccer) kicked over one's own head
5. (uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
6. (countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
7. (uncountable) Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.
8. (uncountable, business) Wasted money.
9. (tennis) A smash.
10. (nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
11. (transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
12. (computing) Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
13. (juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.
14. (archaic) Per head; for each individual.
15. (countable) An overhead projector.
16. (countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.

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Examples of Using OVERHEAD in a Sentence

• There was a short overhead conveyor system for salt from the open salt lake on Sal to the port at Pedra de Lume, and a short rail track to the pier at Santa Maria for similar purposes.
• Myrinet was promoted as having lower protocol overhead than standards such as Ethernet, and therefore better throughput, less interference, and lower latency while using the host CPU.
• The Sun passes directly overhead of the equator, on average, at approximately this point in the sky, at the March equinox.
• Underlying these technical two definitions, the sun passes directly overhead of the equator, within this constellation, at the September equinox.
• Weightlifting (often known as Olympic weightlifting) is a competitive strength sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with the aim of successfully lifting the heaviest weights.
• During summer, the whole country experiences warm temperatures as a result of the sun being directly overhead.
• In telecommunications an aerial insert is a segment of cabling that rises from ground to a point above ground, followed by an overhead run, e.
• In telecommunications, fast packet switching is a variant of packet switching that increases the throughput by eliminating overhead associated with flow control and error correction functions, which are either offloaded to upper layer networking protocols or removed altogether.
• Overhead storage, for example overhead storage bins, racks, shelves, cabinets or track systems in aircraft, trains or buildings.
• The north and south celestial poles appear permanently directly overhead to observers at Earth's North Pole and South Pole, respectively.
• In complexity theory, computational problems that are co-NP-complete are those that are the hardest problems in co-NP, in the sense that any problem in co-NP can be reformulated as a special case of any co-NP-complete problem with only polynomial overhead.
• The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator, where the sun may shine directly overhead.
• Its Southern Hemisphere counterpart, marking the most southerly position at which the Sun can be seen directly overhead, is the Tropic of Capricorn.
• A jumping jack, also known as a star jump and called a side-straddle hop in the US military, is a physical jumping exercise performed by jumping to a position with the legs spread wide and the hands going overhead, sometimes in a clap, and then returning to a position with the feet together and the arms at the sides.
• Before courtyards, open fires were kept burning in a central place within a home, with only a small hole in the ceiling overhead to allow smoke to escape.
• Electrification using 25 kV 50 Hz AC overhead system reached Bristol Parkway in late 2018, and electric trains in the Swindon and London direction commenced passenger service on 30 December 2018.
• In fact, both the control cities on the overhead signs and the destination mileage signs reference Memphis along southbound I-57, even as far north as its northern origin at I-94 in Chicago.
• A short continuation, known by traffic reporters as the I-45 overhead, signed as part of US 75, and officially I-345, continues north to the merge with the current end of US 75.
• On microcontrollers, however, SLIP is still the preferred way of encapsulating IP packets, due to its very small overhead.
• The remains of a tower on the end of the harbour are all that can be seen now of the much taller building which was part of the overhead equipment which used to convey the local stone from where it was quarried to boats in the harbour.

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