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Look up overdrive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Overdrive may refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

  • Operation Overdrive (transportation), a scheme to improve public transportation in and around the Medway Towns in north Kent, England

Operation Overdrive was a scheme to improve public transport in and around the Medway Towns in north Kent, England, with new and refurbished buses operated by Arriva. ...

In technology

An overdrive is sometimes a separate unit that fits into the back of a gearbox, as with this Fairey unit. ... Overdrive in the field of rock music, is a term used for an electric guitar amplifier when turned up, usually deliberately, to the point where distortion (clipping) is clearly audible in the output signal. ... Intel 80486 OverDrive processors were a category of various Intel 80486s that were produced with the designated purpose of being used to upgrade personal computers. ... The Pentium OverDrive was a marketing brand name used by Intel, to cover a variety of consumer upgrade products sold in the mid 1990s. ...

In entertainment

  • Overdrive (magazine), a magazine aimed at truck drivers
  • Maximum Overdrive, a 1986 horror film based on a novel by Stephen King
  • Sci-fi Overdrive, a radio show on BTRN
  • MTV Overdrive, an MTV broadband video channel
  • Mona Lisa Overdrive, a 1988 science fiction novel by William Gibson
  • Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive, a Jetix children's television program on Toon Disney
  • Over Drive (anime)

Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 tongue-in-cheek horror film, written and directed by horror novelist Stephen King. ... Sci-fi Overdrive premiered on the Business Talk Radio Network (BTRN) in March of 2003, featuring news and interviews with those in the entertainment industry pertaining to science fiction and its related genres (fantasy, comics, collectibles, role playing games and Japanese animation). ... MTV Overdrive is MTVs newest broadband video channel. ... NAKAYUBI (ナカユビ; Middle Finger) Buster Zangai -Shape2- (残骸 -Shape2-; Wreck -Shape2-) Limbo Mona Lisa Girl (Shape 2) Sid Vicious on the Beach Black Cherry Genzai (原罪; Original Sin) Monster Ai no uta (愛ノ歌; Love Song Continuous Information Mona Lisa OVERDRIVE was named after the 1989 novel Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson. ... This article is about the anime Over Drive. ...

Games and toys

  • Overdrive (Transformers), a part of the Transformers toy line
  • Over Drive (arcade game), an arcade racing game by Konami
  • Overdrive (video game), a 1984 computer racing game for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron
  • Top Gear Overdrive, a racing game for Nintendo 64 by KEMCO
  • 'Overdrive', a powerful attack form in the role playing game Final Fantasy X
  • 'Overdrive Bar', which tracks combatants' use of 'over-skills', a type of attack in the console role playing game Riviera: The Promised Land
  • 'Overdrive', the name of the screen-clearing bomb in the rail-shooter Rez
  • 'OVERDRIVE', the name of a 70's-esque cop thriller in the upcoming video game Stuntman: Ignition.

Overdrive is the name of a single fictional character in the Transformers universes. ... Overdrive is an arcade-style motor racing game which was written by Peter Johnson for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro and released in 1984 by Superior Software. ... Top Gear OverDrive is a racing simulator released in 1998 for the Nintendo 64. ... Final Fantasy X ) is a console role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix), and the tenth installment in the Final Fantasy video game series; it was released in 2001, and is the first numbered Final Fantasy game for the Sony PlayStation 2 video game console. ... Rez Ingame Screenshot Rez, developed under the codename K-Project, is a video game released by Sega in Japan in 2001 for the Dreamcast and PlayStation 2. ...

Music

  • Overdrive (album), second full-length album from Surrey-based Rock band Fastlane, released October 2006
  • Bachman-Turner Overdrive, a Canadian rock group
  • "Interstellar Overdrive", a track from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn album by Pink Floyd
  • "Overdrive" (song), the first track on the album Because I Can by Katy Rose
  • 'Overdrive', one of the four vocal modes according to the Complete Vocal Technique
  • "Overdrive", a song by the Foo Fighters on their 2002 release One By One
  • "Overdrive", a song by the Pinoy rock band The Eraserheads
  • Overdrive (band), a Swedish heavy metal band from the 1980s

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Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (384 words)
Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) is a Canadian rock band that enjoyed a string of hit albums and singles in the 1970s.
After two moderately successful Brave Belt albums, Allan was replaced by Tim Bachman, the third of the Bachman brothers, and the band changed its name to Bachman-Turner Overdrive; the band released its first album under that name in the Spring of 1973.
Their second album with this line-up was Bachman-Turner Overdrive II, and it became a massive hit in the US and their native Canada.
Overdrive - definition of Overdrive in Encyclopedia (141 words)
OverDrive processors were Intel x86 CPUs specifically designed with the upgrading of obsolescent computers in mind.
An overdrive transmission in automotive and mechanical engineering is a form of gearbox and transmission with a gear ratio that causes the driven wheels to rotate at a higher Rpm than the engine, at a low torque.
An overdrive is sometimes also (mistakenly) called a freewheel.
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