MEANING
To operate a processor or other digital component at a clock frequency higher than its specified or standard setting.
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Words that belong together
- overclock a processor
- an overclocked chip
- overclock the system
On the page
He overclocked the processor to finish the simulation before the relay window closed.
The board could be overclocked, but its cooling system could not sustain the new setting.
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Word forms
- Base
- overclock
- Past tense
- overclocked
- Past participle
- overclocked
- Present participle
- overclocking
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- overclock
- Present continuous
- am/is/are overclocking
- Present perfect
- have/has overclocked
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been overclocking
- Past
- overclocked
- Past continuous
- was/were overclocking
- Past perfect
- had overclocked
- Past perfect continuous
- had been overclocking
- Future
- will overclock
- Future continuous
- will be overclocking
- Future perfect
- will have overclocked
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been overclocking
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: overclock; overclocks; overclocked; overclocked; overclocking Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: overclocks.
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