overpost
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (cartography) To print a text label or other graphic feature on top of another symbol.Examples: "...labels must be positioned to avoid overposting, but without destroying the eye's ability to associate labels with appropriate features."; "In the other method, a mapping program may have the ability to avoid overposting."; "Generally, shot point data have less overposting when the data is posted perpendicular to the orientation of the seismic line."
2. (computing) To breach security by overwriting data that is not intended for user input.Examples: "The major problem here is the approach of using the domain object directly as the parameter for the action method that allows a user to overpost."; "The Bind attribute is used to protect against overposting attacks by creating a list of safe properties to update; however, as we will discuss later, it does not work as expected and so it is safer to use a different method for editing or creating where some values may be blank. As an example of overposting, consider a scenario where the price is submitted as part of the request when a user submits an order for a product. An overposting attack would attempt to alter this price data by changing the submitted request data in an attempt to buy the product cheaper."; "To protect from overposting attacks, please enable the specific properties you want to bind to."
noun (English)
1. (accounting) An entry that has been posted more than once to a journal.Examples: "On Feb. 1, 1879, I discover that, though the Ledger of 1878 had been closed and balanced, the amount brought forward as due by W. Tarn should have been £52 14s. id. (not £32 15s. id.); and this is found to have been caused by an overpost to his credit from a correct Journal entry."
2. (cartography) An overlap of two graphic elements.Examples: "Mapping programs such as SACM have automatic overpost deletion routines but useful data often are eliminated."; "Even when the plot scale allows sufficient space for posting, overposts can occur because of the orientation of the lines."; "Figure 1 shows the use of the overpost environment to reposition text."
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