1. Intermediate results of an operation are progressively written to the Accumulator, overwriting the previous value.

2. In software engineering, Clobbering a file, Processor register or computer memory is the process of overwriting its contents

3. Provide a mechanism to add functionality to the main calendar objects (the subclasses of Calendar) without needing to directly extend them (and risk overwriting fields accidentally).

4. Capped collections work in a way similar to circular buffers: once a collection fills its allocated space, it makes room for new documents by overwriting the oldest documents in the collection.