overhead

Meanings

Plural: overheads

Noun

• the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes
• (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command
• (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing
• a transparency for use with an overhead projector
• (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship
• a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
• The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
• The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
• Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.
• Wasted money.
• A smash.
• The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
• A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
• The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
• Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
• An overhead throw.
• A type of bridge, also commonly known as an overpass or flyover, which carries one form of traffic over another.
• An overhead projector.
• A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.

Adjective

• located or originating from above
  • "an overhead crossing"

Adverb

• above your head; in the sky
  • "planes were flying overhead"
• above the head; over the head
  • "bring the legs together overhead"

Adj

• Located above, especially over the head.
• Kicked over one's own head.

Adv

• Above one's head; in the sky.
• Per head; for each individual.

Prep

• Above.

Synonyms

budget items, command overhead, command processing overhead, command processing overhead time, disk overhead, operating cost, operating expense, smash, viewgraph

Antonyms

subsurface, surface

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