Definizione monolingua

overhead

overhead (countable and uncountable; plural overheads)

1. (uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
2. (countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
3. (uncountable) Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to the progress or outcome of the project or activity.
4. (uncountable, business) Wasted money.
5. (tennis) A smash.
6. (nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel
7. (transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
8. (computing) data or steps of computation that is only used to facilitate the computations in the system and is not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.

   Network overhead is the header data that is required to route and transport data over network, whereas fork overhead is the additional time and memory cost of creating and managing new processes within operating system.

9. (juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.

overhead (comparative more overhead, superlative most overhead)

1. located above, especially over the head

   Place your luggage in the overhead bins.

2. (business, accounting) of, or relating to the operating expenses of a business

   They tried to reduce overhead costs.

3. (soccer) kicked over ones own head
   • 2011 February 12, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 2 - 1 Man City”, BBC:

     It was Rooney, however, who produced a moment of inspiration to score a stunning overhead kick that will live forever in the memory of Uniteds fans and extended Citys dismal sequence of only one league win in their last 27 visits to Old Trafford.

overhead (comparative more overhead, superlative most overhead)

1. above ones head;in the sky

   Birds flying overhead.

Definizione dizionario overhead

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Altri significati:

(uncountable, business) Wasted money.

(countable) An overhead projector.

(uncountable) Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to the progress or outcome of the project or activity.

The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided

located above, especially over the head

(countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.

(nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel

(computing) data or steps of computation that is only used to facilitate the computations in the system and is not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed. E.g. '''network overhead''' is the header data that is required to route and transport data over network; '''fork overhead''' is the additional time and memory cost of creating and managing new processes within operating system.

Work or information that provides support - possibly critical support-for a computing process but is not an intrinsic part of the operation or data. Overhead often adds to processing time but is generally necessary.

(soccer) Kicked over one's own head.

above one's head;in the sky

(juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.

(uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.

(countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.

(business, accounting) of, or relating to the operating expenses of a business

(tennis) A smash.

(transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.