1. A flag on some processors indicating an attempt to calculate a result too large for the destination register to hold. 2. 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." 3. 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". [Jargon File]

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