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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 cap...
Overflow on /dev/null, please empty the bit bucket.
overflow pdl: [MIT] n. The place where you put things when your {pdl} is full.
If you don't have one and too many things get pushed, you forget something....
OVERFLOW - the result of being too much OFF LINE, or failure to exhibit FLOATING CONTROL
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
-- George Washington (1732-1799)...
Overheard: No, honey, I don't want to learn how to run the washing machine.
I'm sorry I learned how to run the dishwasher. -- Andrew Maso...
.. over in west Philadelphia a puppy is vomiting.. -- Zippy the Pinhead
Overload -- core meltdown sequence initiated.
Over my dead body. -- Written on grave
Over my head his arm he flung Against the world.
-- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Count Gismond, xix...

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