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What (who) is overrun - definition

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Overrun (disambiguation)

overrun         
adj. overrun with (overrun with weeds)
overrun         
1. A frequent consequence of data arriving faster than it can be consumed, especially in serial line communications. For example, at 9600 baud there is almost exactly one character per millisecond, so if a silo can hold only two characters and the machine takes longer than 2 milliseconds to get to service the interrupt, at least one character will be lost. 2. Also applied to non-serial-I/O communications. "I forgot to pay my electric bill due to mail overrun." "Sorry, I got four phone calls in 3 minutes last night and lost your message to overrun." When thrashing at tasks, the next person to make a request might be told "Overrun!" Compare {firehose syndrome}. 3. More loosely, may refer to a buffer overflow not necessarily related to processing time (as in {overrun screw}). [Jargon File]
overrun         
(overruns, overrunning, overran)
1.
If an army or an armed force overruns a place, area, or country, it succeeds in occupying it very quickly.
A group of rebels overran the port area and most of the northern suburbs...
VERB: V n
2.
If you say that a place is overrun with things that you consider undesirable, you mean that there are a large number of them there.
The Hotel has been ordered to close because it is overrun by mice and rats...
Padua and Vicenza are prosperous, well-preserved cities, not overrun by tourists.
ADJ: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ with/by n
3.
If an event or meeting overruns by, for example, ten minutes, it continues for ten minutes longer than it was intended to.
Tuesday's lunch overran by three-quarters of an hour...
The talks overran their allotted time.
VERB: V by n, V n, also V
4.
If costs overrun, they are higher than was planned or expected. (BUSINESS)
We should stop the nonsense of taxpayers trying to finance new weapons whose costs always overrun hugely...
Costs overran the budget by about 30%.
VERB: V, V n
Overrun is also a noun.
He was stunned to discover cost overruns of at least $1 billion.
N-COUNT: usu n N

Wikipedia

Overrun

Overrun may refer to:

  • Overrun brake
  • Overrun, the condition of a vehicle travelling without throttle, see freewheel
    • Overrunning clutch, see freewheel
  • Buffer overrun, see buffer overflow
  • Overrun is the section of a runway, sometimes called a blast pad, that is used as an emergency space to slowly stop planes after an aborted takeoff or a problem on landing
  • Cost overrun
  • Overrun is the amount of air injected into soft serve ice creams
  • Overrun (film), a 2021 American action crime comedy
Examples of use of overrun
1. Darfur remains overrun with violence and banditry.
2. The White House was overrun a second time in June.
3. The police force is notoriously overrun with sectarian militias.
4. Now that paradise has been found, it has been overrun.
5. It can overrun badly but it wasn‘t too busy tonight.