An excessive load.

The damage done, or the outage caused, by such a load.

(automotive) An load of goods above the prescribed carrying weight of the vehicle.

(computing, programming) An overloaded version of a function.

(transitive) To load excessively.

(transitive) To provide too much power to a circuit.

(transitive, object-oriented programming) To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts.

(intransitive) To fail due to excessive load.