An overlay might be relevant in the following fields:
- Overlay Control in semiconductor manufacturing, for monitoring layer-to-layer alignment on multi-layer device structures. Overlay control has always played an important role in semiconductor manufacturing, helping to monitor layer-to-layer alignment on multi-layer device structures
- Video overlay, techniques to display video on computer display. Video overlay is any technique used to display a Video window on a computer display while bypassing the chain of CPU -> Graphics card -> Computer monitor
- Hardware overlay, one type of video overlay that uses memory dedicated to the application. Hardware overlay, a type of Video overlay, is a method of rendering an image to a display screen with a dedicated memory buffer inside computer Video
- Overlay (programming), a technique to reduce the amount of memory used by a program. In a general computing sense overlaying means "replacement of a block of stored instructions or data with another" Overlaying is a programming method that allows programs
- Overlay (operating system), replacing one process by another
- Overlay network, a computer network which is built on top of another network
- Overlay (gentoo), a different location for the ebuilds
- Overlay plan, a method of introducing new area codes in telephony. In Operating systems an overlay is when a process replaces itself with the code of another program An overlay network is a Computer network which is built on top of another network In Telephony, especially in North America, an overlay plan is the practice of introducing a new Area code by applying it onto a geographic area
- Overlay (systems), recurring themes in a course of study, distinguished by the propensity to cross boundaries (organizational or otherwise) in an effort to gain emergence.
- Overlay (urban planning), a method where a city makes a zoning exception and "overlays" a neighorborhood.
Dictionary
overlay
-verb
- (transitive) To lay, or spread, something over or across; to cover.
- To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
- (transitive) To smother with a close covering, or by lying upon.
- (transitive, printing) To put an overlay on.
-noun
- (printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
- (gambling) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.
- (horse racing) A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances.
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