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Overflow Bit n.
  • [techspeak] A flag on some processors indicating an attempt to calculate a result too large for a register to hold.
  • More generally, an indication of any kind of capacity overload condition. "Well, the Ada description was baroque all right, but I could hack it OK until they got to the exception handling . that set my overflow bit. "
  • The hypothetical bit that will be set if a hacker doesn't get to make a trip to the Room of Porcelain Fixtures "I'd better process an internal interrupt before the overflow bit gets set".
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