2. Verb. (third-person singular of overload) ¹
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Definition of Overloads
1. overload [v] - See also: overload
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overloads
Literary usage of Overloads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Large Electric Power Stations: Their Design and Construction, with Examples by Georg Klingenberg (1916)
"overloads AND PRESSURE SURGES. The system of protection against excessive overloads
must be designed in such a manner that the faulty feeder can be cut out ..."
2. Interior Wiring and Systems for Electric Light and Power Sevice: A Manual of by Arthur Leroy Cook (1917)
"165) TEMPERATURE RATINGS AND overloads OF MOTORS * * Based on ratings adopted by
the Electric Power Club, an association of the principal manufacturers of ..."
3. Cyclopedia of Modern Shop Practice: A Manual of Shop Practice, Pattern edited by Howard Monroe Raymond (1904)
"... they will carry heavy overloads without injurious heating. These turbines are
built in sizes ranging from li Kw. to 5000 Kw. The Curtis turbine is also ..."
4. The State Highways of California: An Engineering Study Conducted Jointly by by California State Automobile Association, Automobile Club of Southern California (1921)
"14 DATA COLLECTED REGARDING overloads CARRIED BY TRUCKS WEIGHED ON PUBLIC SCALES
IN LOS ANGELES Capacity of Trucks Table No. 15 DATA COLLECTED REGARDING ..."
5. Principles of Transformer Design by Alfred Still (1919)
"Effect of overloads on Transformer Temperatures. Since the curve of Fig. 32 is
not a straight line, it follows that the watts dissipated per square inch of ..."
6. The Conflict of Ages: Or, the Great Debate on the Moral Relations of God and Man by Edward Beecher (1855)
"Nor is this. all: if we thus extend the idea of death, and give to Adam causative
power, it entirely overloads the type, and destroys the truth of the ..."
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