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• overflow bit: n. 1. [techspeak] A {flag} on some processors indicating an attempt to calculate a result too large for a register to hold.
  2. More generally, an indication of any kind of capacity overload condition....
• bit n. [from the mainstream meaning and `Binary digIT'] 1.
  [techspeak] The unit of information; the amount of information obtained by asking a yes-or-no question for which the two outcomes are equally probable....
• bit bucket overflow
• bit bucket n. [very common] 1. The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction).
  Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have `gone to the bit bucket'....
• Overflow on /dev/null, please empty the bit bucket.