overhead
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- noun
- /ˈoʊvərˌhɛd/
- Specialized
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- The team looked for ways to reduce the overhead associated with managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- reduce overhead
- low overhead
- memory overhead
And you know how much, you know, how great will the overhead be from the error correction That we don't know yet.
- And you know how much, you know, how great will the overhead be from the error correction That we don't know yet.
- Why not do it all in BCD and then you don't have the binary to BCD overhead?
- You know, it with the CI should say we we're really primarily running C here because C++ is too much overhead and we have our own C compiler.
- So with huge pages, we take those four KB chunks and we make them two MB chunks, which drastically reduces the size of our table and therefore our CPU overhead.
Examples
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However, for small matrices, the overhead of pure recursion and/or data transformation is too high.
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The per-node memory overhead of the SDK's runtime software is incurred primarily by its common abstraction layer.
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So there's like all this overhead compared to just doing its operations.
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Redundancy is the result of the wasted overhead when multiple people are working on the same problem in different teams.
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Our experiments show low overhead for small transfers and high performance for large transfers, relative to conventional tools.
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The scheme described has a modest circuit overhead and very good error-detection capabilities.
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The results showed that the overhead due to recursion became negligible.
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However, this incurs additional memory overhead to store the current best distances D(f(x, y)).
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The software's overhead for processing each transaction is significantly higher than expected due to additional features.
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Minimizing overhead is crucial for maximizing the efficiency and performance of our computing systems.
Synonyms
Time a computer or machine takes to get ready before it runs a command
Time a device takes to get ready before it starts a command
Extra time or work a device needs before it runs a command
Space on a disk used to store information the computer needs, not your files
Antonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
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3.2
A machine that shines light through clear plastic sheets to show images on a screen
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Time a computer or machine takes to get ready before it runs a command
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Time a device takes to get ready before it starts a command
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Space on a disk used to store information the computer needs, not your files
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A gym exercise that lifts a weight from the shoulder to above the head until the arms are straight
How Intrusive
Surface Forms
Morphology
overhead = head (opaque) = over + head
The accounting/computing sense ('administrative or non-user costs/resources') is a metaphorical extension from physical 'over the head' and is not reliably deducible from 'over' + 'head' by average learners. [Postprocessing: moved 'over' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
Overhead comes from the parts over- and head, meaning 'above the head', and it was also used for extra things that sit 'on top' of a job. So in computing, 'overhead' is the extra time, space, or resources the system needs on top of the main work.