Overhead

Overhead may be:

Ancillary support

Referring to ancillary support:

• Overhead (business), the ongoing operating costs of running a business
• Overhead (engineering), ancillary implementation required to achieve a design goal
  • Overhead (computing), ancillary implementation required to achieve a software design goal
  • Protocol overhead, encoding overhead or overhead information, additional bandwidth used by a communications protocol

Above the head

Referring to something above the head:

• Overhead cable, a signal transmission cable suspended in the air
• Overhead crane or bridge crane, a type of crane that slides on rails above workers
• Overhead join, an air traffic control pattern
• Overhead line, a power transmission line suspended in the air
• Overhead press, an upper-body weight-training exercise
• Overhead projector, a display system that projects above the heads of the audience
• Overhead storage, storage located above the head; often above seats on aircraft and trains

Other

• Overhead cam, a design aspect of an engine that indicates the camshaft is above the combustion chamber

See also

• Overkill (disambiguation)