1. overdriven - Adjective
2. overdriven - Verb
Derived from overdrive
overdriven (comparative more overdriven, superlative most overdriven)
Driven too hard, or beyond normal limits; exhausted.
An inappropriate value of the tank capacitor caused the crystal in a control board to be overdriven, jumping to an overtone, and causing the train to speed up instead of slowing down. Source: Internet
Fuzz bass (also called "bass overdrive") is a style of playing the electric bass that produces a buzzy, overdriven sound via a tube or transistor amp or by using a fuzz or overdrive pedal. Source: Internet
Oldfield used a modified Roland GP8 effects processor in conjunction with his PRS Artist to get many of his heavily overdriven guitar sounds from the Earth Moving album onwards. Source: Internet
Similarly, an overdriven transistor amplifier can take on the characteristics of a controlled switch having essentially two levels of output. Source: Internet
While AT cuts tend to be fairly forgiving, with only their electrical parameters, stability and aging characteristics being degraded when overdriven, low-frequency crystals, especially flexural-mode ones, may fracture at too high drive levels. Source: Internet