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'''Method overloading''' is a feature found in various [[object oriented]] [[programming language]]s such as [[C Sharp# (programming language)|C#]], [[C++]] and [[Java (programming language)|Java]] that allows the creation of several [[subprogram|function]]s with the same name which differ from each other in terms of the type of the input and the type of the output of the function.

An example of this would be a [[Square (algebra)|square]] function which takes a number and returns the square of that number. In this case, it is often necessary to create different functions for [[Integer (computer science)|integer]] and [[floating point]] numbers.