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What (who) is overwrite - definition


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WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Overwrite; Overwriting (disambiguation)
¦ verb (past overwrote; past participle overwritten)
1. write on top of (other writing).
Computing destroy (data) or the data in (a file) by entering new data in its place.
2. write too elaborately or ornately.
3. (in insurance) accept more risk than the premium income limits allow.
Examples of use of overwrite
1. Such a process would overwrite large numbers of e–mails.
2. Sometimes you can overwrite, sometimes people get too silly.
3. The user can click on individual words to choose the best one or overwrite the automatic correction.
4. The result was a new law empowering the supervisor of banks to overwrite the entire mechanism, by issuing a new price list that would apply to all the banks.
5. There are also system tools that will suggest enhanced security settings for your PC, change your Start folder, remove browser history and cached files, and also fully erase (i.e. overwrite) deleted data files on your system so they can‘t be read again in the future.