(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 class}es. (1995-04-30)