Sentence examples for is overwriting from inspiring English sources
verb
To destroy (older data) by recording new data over it.
- I accidentally saved my unwanted changes and overwrote the version of the document I wanted to keep.
Boyagoda complains of the "surplusage" of Frazier's prose: "A little girl doesn't hurt her nose," he writes, "she 'pierced the wing of her nostril.' " The implication from this and other examples is that Frazier is overwriting, using unnecessarily flowery language.
He's pleased that interest in clinical trials is reducing stigma around psychedelic use and is overwriting old headlines about hippies and people thinking they can fly out of windows.
And the monologue that closes it, delivered with perfect pitch by Larry Clarke as the gonzo Sergeant Cokes, is overwritten.
By using the aforementioned utility, every sector of the hard drive is overwritten with zeros, thereby destroying all data.
The scene is overwritten, but Morisseau isn't afraid of melodrama; she knows that highly theatrical emotions can actually be true, on or off the stage.
At any rate, the attempt to salute Bach with laboured geological imagery does not work: "Passion will scorch deep in these sharp canals" is overwritten.
Throughout the movie Cali, who is meant to be precocious but whose part is overwritten, natters along, importuning Tula to play a maternal role.
After the filtering finishes, array in is overwritten by the filtered image.
This map is overwritten on the enlarged 1 25,000-scale topographical map of 'Kinkasan' issued by GSI.
Database structure is general and enables the inclusion of multi-dimensional data signals in multiple revisions (no data is overwritten).
Figure 3 LSB in 8 bits per sample signal is overwritten by one bit of the hidden data.
