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overlay
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(1) A preprinted, precut form placed over a screen, key or tablet for identification purposes. See keyboard template.

(2) A program segment called into memory when required. When a program is larger than the memory capacity of the machine, parts of the program not in constant use can be set up as overlays. Each overlay called in overwrites the existing overlay in memory. Virtual memory provides for automatic overlays. See virtual memory.



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Then, at least in some traditions, there's an overlayer of saints' days, to remember all that's best in church history down the centuries.
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[3] In doing so my intent is not to undermine Wright's reading but to overlayer it with another, quite compatible interpretation, in which Nuper rosarum flores references not only the imaginary Solomonic Temple but also the real S.
Architecture and Music Reunited: A New Reading of Dufay's Nuper ... by TRACHTENBERG, MARVIN / Renaissance Quarterly
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