Crossword clues for overhead
overhead
- Budget figure
- A hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- The expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance)
- It does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes
- (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command
- (computer science) the disk space required for non-data information (used for location and timing)
- (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship
- Certain business expenses
- Business costs
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
overhead \o"ver*head`\, n.
same as overhead expenses.
A compartment on a train, bus, or airplane used for storage of luggage or accessory equipment; called also overhead compartment.
(Sports) A stroke with a racket in which the ball is struck with the racket over the head, moving in a downward motion; also called overhead stroke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. 1 located above, especially over the head 2 (context soccer English) kicked over one's own head adv. above one's head; in the sky. n. 1 (context uncountable business accounting English) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided. 2 (context countable business accounting English) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided. 3 (context uncountable English) Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to the progress or outcome of the project or activity. 4 (context uncountable business English) Wasted money. 5 (context tennis English) A smash#Noun. 6 (context nautical English) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel 7 (context transport English) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses. 8 (context computing English) data or steps of computation that is only used to facilitate the computations in the system and is not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed. 9 (context juggling by ellipsis English) An overhead throw. Etymology 2
n. 1 (context countable English) An overhead projector. 2 (context countable English) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
WordNet
adj. located or originating from above; "an overhead crossing" [ant: surface, subsurface]
n. the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes [syn: operating expense, operating cost, budget items]
(computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command [syn: command processing overhead time, command processing overhead, command overhead]
(computer science) the disk space required for non-data information (used for location and timing) [syn: disk overhead]
a transparency for use with an overhead projector [syn: viewgraph]
(nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship
a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head [syn: smash]
adv. above your head; in the sky; "planes were flying overhead"
above the head; over the head; "bring the legs together overhead"
Wikipedia
Overhead may be:
- Overhead (business), the ongoing operating costs of running a business
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Engineering overhead, ancillary design features required by a component of a device
- Overhead (computing), ancillary computation required by an algorithm or program
- Protocol overhead, additional bandwidth used by a communications protocol
- Line code or encoding overhead, additional bandwidth required for physical line transmission
- 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 line, for power transmission
- Overhead cable, for signal transmission
- Overhead projector, a display system
- Overhead cam, a mechanical device
- Overhead join, in air traffic control
In computer science, overhead is any combination of excess or indirect computation time, memory, bandwidth, or other resources that are required to attain a particular goal. It is a special case of engineering overhead.
In engineering, some methods or components make special demands on the system. The extra design features necessary to accommodate these demands are called overhead. For instance, in electrical engineering, a particular integrated circuit might draw large current, requiring a robust power delivery circuit and a heat-dissipation mechanism.
In business, overhead or overhead expense refers to an ongoing expense of operating a business; it is also known as an "operating expense". Overheads are the expenditure which cannot be conveniently traced to or identified with any particular cost unit. Therefore, overheads cannot be immediately associated with the products or services being offered, thus do not directly generate profits. However, overheads are still vital to business operations as they provide critical support for the business to carry out profit making activities. For example, overhead costs such as the rent for a factory allows workers to manufacture products which can then be sold for a profit. Such expenses are incurred for output generally and not for particular work order e.g., wages paid to watch and ward staff, heating and lighting expenses of factory etc. Overheads are also very important cost element along with direct materials and direct labor.
Overheads are often related to accounting concepts such as fixed costs and indirect costs.
Overhead expenses are all costs on the income statement except for direct labour, direct materials, and direct expenses. Overhead expenses include accounting fees, advertising, insurance, interest, legal fees, labor burden, rent, repairs, supplies, taxes, telephone bills, travel expenditures, and utilities.
There are essentially two types of business overheads. Administrative overheads and manufacturing overheads.
Usage examples of "overhead".
Through the ventilator grilles she could clearly hear the sounds of thumping and tapping and slithering of other-species ambulatory appendages overhead, and the indescribable babbie of growling, hissing, gobbling, and cheeping conversation that accompanied it.
For some little time the whole building was a blinding crimson mass, the towers continued to spout thick columns of rockets aloft, and overhead the sky was radiant with arrowy bolts which clove their way to the zenith, paused, curved gracefully downward, then burst into brilliant fountain-sprays of richly colored sparks.
The clutter of the overhead with pipes and cables and ducts was cleared out, leaving a circular continuous display screen angling between the bulkheads and the overhead, and the starboard row of consoles that had been the attack center was gone, replaced by five cubicles.
Overhead hung an ordinary tell-tale compass, and compactly placed on other parts of the wall were barometers, thermometers, barographs, and, in fact, practically every instrument that the most exacting of aeronauts or Space-explorers could have asked for.
From a window opening upon a balcony overhead came the clear notes of a barytone voice enunciating the oldfashioned words of an English ballad, the refrain of which expressed hopeless separation.
Feather stepped to the left, intending to seek a way around the ravine, when a chilling sound wafted down from overhead, the sound of deep, guttural laughter, echoing from wall to wall, mocking him, making him realize the bearish figures had just been toying with him.
Carefully, he balanced sun overhead through the billowing clouds, shot the horizon with the half-mirror, then did a few calculations.
The trees at Tse Bonito Park were yellow, the roadsides were streaked with the purple of the last surviving October asters, and overhead the sky was the dark, blank blue.
Overhead the hands had already bowsed the swinging yard to the shrouds and were running a cable to the shattered end to act as a brace.
The great prison spread out in a flat valley below them, brilliantly illuminated by the yellow glare of overhead lights, as surreal an industrial confection as a giant oil refinery.
Lo Manto opened it and slowly stepped inside, the hall filtered in darkness, an overhead twenty-five-watt bulb close to the rear exit the only visible light.
Lo Manto tilted his head against the overhead sun and glanced over at Jennifer.
Lo Manto said, following Blind Moe into his office, watching as the old man clicked on an overhead light as he moved through a large space cluttered with cabinets, old photos resting against the sides of gray walls, bookshelves filled with jazz and blues LPs, all lined up in alphabetical order.
Reacting to the authority in his voice, Gustav and Marga shot at the tanks and pipes overhead and on all sides, while Warren threw more grenades.
And, mingled with the shades of twilight, lay On the brown massy woods--and in the east The broad and burning moon lingeringly rose Between the black trunks of the crowded trees, While the faint stars were gathering overhead.