# Claim (false): Julia isn't multiple dispatch but overloading

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** multidispatch\
**Created:** [July 1, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/claim-false-julia-isnt-multiple-dispatch-but-overloading/42370 "2020-07-01T13:55:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/claim-false-julia-isnt-multiple-dispatch-but-overloading/42370/22 "2020-07-01T15:45:23Z")

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I meant that a language can be multiple dispatch ( as defined in the Julia manual: _Using all of a function’s arguments to choose which method should be invoked, rather than just the first, is known as multiple dispatch._), or it can be single-dispatch (as in Python), and at the same time it can be either static or dynamic. These two concepts seem to be orthogonal. Am I wrong?

The reason I bring this up is that these two concepts are conflated in this discussion, and it seems not to be helpful.

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