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Define the word overloading

"Overloading" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"

Overload \O`ver*load"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overloaded; p. pr.
   & vb. n. Overloading.] [Cf. Overlade.]
   To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.
   [1913 Webster]

"overloading" foldoc "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)"

overloading
     
         (Or "Operator overloading").  Use of a single
        symbol to represent operators with different argument types,
        e.g. "-", used either, as a monadic operator to negate an
        expression, or as a dyadic operator to return the difference
        between two expressions.  Another example is "+" used to add
        either integers or floating-point numbers.  Overloading is
        also known as ad-hoc polymorphism.
     
        User-defined operator overloading is provided by several
        modern programming languages, e.g. C++'s class system and
        the functional programming language Haskell's type classes.
     
        (1995-04-30)