Override meaning : A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control. A royalty. A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others. A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved. To ride across or beyond something. To ride a horse too hard. To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority. To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.