Overhead may be:
- Overhead (business), the ongoing operating costs of running a business
- Engineering overhead, ancillary design features required by a component of a device
- Computational overhead, ancillary computation required by an algorithm or program
- Overhead information, for telecommunication systems
- File system overhead, storage or other consideration required by a file system that is not directly related to data.
- Any physical object situated, or action occurring above:
- Overhead wire, for power transmission
- Overhead cable, for signal transmission
- Overhead projector, a display system
- Overhead cam, a mechanical device
- Overhead join, in air traffic control
- Overhead (band), a Finnish progressive rock band
Famous quotes containing the word overhead:
“During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of existence paralyzes me... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe—like an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass.”
—W.N.P. Barbellion (1889–1919)
“There’s something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at it, and searchlights feeling their way across the sky like antennae, and the earth shaking snort of the bombs and the whimper of shrapnel pieces when they come down to patter on the roof.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“What a fog! Plane been buzzin’ around overhead for the last half hour. Must be like trying to find your way through the inside of a cow. I never did see such a country. Even the birds are walkin’.”
—Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976)