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 }</code>
 
 <p class="important"><strong>Tip:</strong>&nbsp; Any functions in your class that are named identically to the functions in the parent class will be used instead of the native ones
-(this is known as "method overloading").
+(this is known as "method overriding").
 This allows you to substantially alter the CodeIgniter core.</p>