Overhead
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- Overhead (business), the ongoing operating costs of running a business
- Engineering overhead, ancillary design features required by a component of a device
- Overhead (computing), ancillary computation required by an algorithm or program
- Protocol overhead, additional bandwidth used by a communications protocol
- Line code or encoding overhead, additional bandwidth required for physical line transmission
- Overhead information, for telecommunication systems
- File system overhead, storage or other consideration required by a file system that is not directly related to data. For example, in tape data storage, the separator between one file and the next is overhead.
- Any physical object situated, or action occurring above:
- Overhead line, for power transmission
- Overhead cable, for signal transmission
- Overhead projector, a display system
- Overhead storage, for example overhead storage bins, racks, shelves, cabinets or track systems in aircraft, trains or buildings
- Overhead cam, a mechanical device
- Overhead join, in air traffic control
- Overhead press, an upper-body weight training exercise in
- Overhead crane or bridge crane, a type of crane sliding on two parallel rails
See also
- Overkill (disambiguation)
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