overhead

  • (a) located or originating from above
    • an overhead crossing
  • (r) above your head; in the sky
    • planes were flying overhead
  • (r) above the head; over the head
    • bring the legs together overhead

Nouns

  • (n) 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 budget items, operating cost, operating expense,
  • (n) (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command command overhead, command processing overhead, command processing overhead time,
  • (n) (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing disk overhead,
  • (n) a transparency for use with an overhead projector viewgraph,
  • (n) (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship
  • (n) a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head smash,

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

surface subsurface

Words of close approximity

overhear overheat
overhear overheat
overhead projector overhead railway