Load or LOAD may refer to:

Aeronautics and transportation

Load factor (aeronautics) In aeronautics, the load factor is the ratio of the lift of an aircraft to its weightHurt, page 37 and represents a global measure of the stress ("load") to which the structure of the aircraft is subjected: : n = \frac, where : n is the load factor ...

, the ratio of the lift of an aircraft to its weight *

Passenger load factor Passenger load factor, or load factor, measures the capacity utilization of public transport services like airlines, passenger railways, and intercity bus services. It is generally used to assess how efficiently a transport provider fills seats ...

, the ratio of revenue passenger miles to available seat miles of a particular transportation operation (e.g. a flight)

Biology and medicine

* Afterload, the maximum effect of a heartbeat driving blood mass out of the heart into the aorta and pulmonary arteries *

Genetic load Genetic load is the difference between the fitness of an average genotype in a population and the fitness of some reference genotype, which may be either the best present in a population, or may be the theoretically optimal genotype. The average i ...

, of a population *Late-Onset Alzheimer's disease (acronym: LOAD), a chronic neurodegenerative disease *

Parasite load Parasite load is a measure of the number and virulence of the parasites that a host organism harbours. Quantitative parasitology deals with measures to quantify parasite loads in samples of hosts and to make statistical comparisons of parasitism ac ...

, of an organism *

Viral load Viral load, also known as viral burden, is a numerical expression of the quantity of virus in a given volume of fluid, including biological and environmental specimens. It is not to be confused with viral titre or viral titer, which depends on the ...

, of organisms and populations

Computing and electricity

Load (computing) In UNIX computing, the system load is a measure of the amount of computational work that a computer system performs. The load average represents the average system load over a period of time. It conventionally appears in the form of three numb ...

, a measure of how much processing a computer performs *

Electrical load An electrical load is an electrical component or portion of a circuit that consumes (active) electric power, such as electrical appliances and lights inside the home. The term may also refer to the power consumed by a circuit. This is opposed ...

, a device connected to the output of a circuit *

Electronic load A dummy load is a device used to simulate an electrical load, usually for testing purposes. In radio a dummy antenna is connected to the output of a radio transmitter and electrically simulates an antenna, to allow the transmitter to be adjust ...

, a simulated electrical load used for testing purposes * Invade-a-Load, was a fast loader routine used in software for the Commodore 64 computer; it was used in commercial computer games *

Load balancing (computing) In computing, load balancing is the process of distributing a set of tasks over a set of resources (computing units), with the aim of making their overall processing more efficient. Load balancing can optimize the response time and avoid uneven ...

, or load distribution, a method that improves the distribution of workloads across multiple computing resources *

Load balancing (electrical power) Load balancing, load matching, or daily peak demand reserve refers to the use of various techniques by electrical power stations to store excess electrical power during low demand periods for release as demand rises. The aim is for the power supp ...

, or load distribution, the storing of excess electrical power by power stations during low demand periods, for release as demand rises *

Load cell A load cell converts a force such as tension, compression, pressure, or torque into an electrical signal that can be measured and standardized. It is a force transducer. As the force applied to the load cell increases, the electrical signal change ...

, a transducer that is used to create an electrical signal *

Load factor (computer science) In computing, a hash table, also known as hash map, is a data structure that implements an associative array or dictionary. It is an abstract data type that maps keys to values. A hash table uses a hash function to compute an ''index'', al ...

, the ratio of the number of records to the number of addresses within a data structure *

Load factor (electrical) In electrical engineering the load factor is defined as the average load divided by the peak load in a specified time period. It is a measure of the utilization rate, or efficiency of electrical energy usage; a high load factor indicates that loa ...

, the average power divided by the peak power over a period of time *

Load file A load file in the litigation community is commonly referred to as the file used to import data (coded, captured or extracted data from ESI processing) into a database; or the file used to link images. These load files carry commands, commandi ...

, the file used to import data into a database or to link images *

Load management Load management, also known as demand-side management (DSM), is the process of balancing the supply of electricity on the network with the electrical load by adjusting or controlling the load rather than the power station output. This can be ach ...

, also known as demand side management (DSM), the process of balancing the supply of electricity on the network with the electrical load *

Load testing Load testing is the process of putting demand on a structure or system and measuring its response. Software load testing The term ''load testing'' is used in different ways in the professional software testing community. ''Load testing'' gen ...

, the process of putting demand on a system and measuring its response

Mechanics, construction, and architecture

Add-on factor In architecture, construction, and real estate, floor area, floor space, or floorspace is the area (measured as square feet or square metres) taken up by a building or part of it. The ways of defining "floor area" depend on what factors of the buil ...

, or load factor, floor area, floor space, or floorspace, is the area (measured as square feet or square metres) taken up by a building or part of it *

Mechanical load Mechanical load is the physical stress on a mechanical system or component. Loads can be static or dynamic. Some loads are specified as part of the design criteria of a mechanical system. Depending on the usage, some mechanical loads can be measu ...

, the external mechanical resistance against which a machine, such as a motor or engine, acts *

Structural load A structural load or structural action is a force, deformation, or acceleration applied to structural elements. A load causes stress, deformation, and displacement in a structure. Structural analysis, a discipline in engineering, analyzes the ...

, forces which apply to a structure *

Wind load Wind engineering is a subset of mechanical engineering, structural engineering, meteorology, and applied physics that analyzes the effects of wind in the natural and the built environment and studies the possible damage, inconvenience or benefits w ...

Moving load In structural dynamics, a moving load changes the point at which the load is applied over time. Examples include a vehicle that travels across a bridge and a train moving along a track. Properties In computational models, load is usually ...

, this is the load that changes in time the place to which is applied

Music

Load Records Load Records was an American experimental music-oriented independent record label based out of Providence, Rhode Island. "Load Records might possibly be in possession of the world's most challenging record roster," writes Mark Hensch of Thrash Pi ...

, an American experimental independent record label * ''Load'' (album), the 6th album released by the band Metallica * ''Loads'' (album), a 1995 compilation of the British pop group Happy Mondays

Places

Load, Kentucky Load is an unincorporated community located in Greenup County, Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It b ...

Load Brook Dungworth (archaic ''Dungeworth'',) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Bradfield, west of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. The village also gives its name as a surname; a 'Dungworth' is recorded living at the nearby village of Storrs ...

, a hamlet in England

Other uses

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The Load ''The Load'' ( sr, Терет, Teret) is a 2018 Serbian war drama film directed by Ognjen Glavonić. It was selected to screen in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. It also won the Golden Pram Award for Best Featur ...

'', a 2018 Serbian war film *

Cargo Cargo consists of bulk goods conveyed by water, air, or land. In economics, freight is cargo that is transported at a freight rate for commercial gain. ''Cargo'' was originally a shipload but now covers all types of freight, including trans ...

, paraphernalia being transported * Factor loadings, in statistics, the exposure to specific factors or components in Factor Analysis or Principal Component Analysis * Load fund, a mutual fund with a type of commission known as ''load'' *Load, a sexual slang term for

Semen Semen, also known as seminal fluid, is an organic bodily fluid created to contain spermatozoa. It is secreted by the gonads (sexual glands) and other sexual organs of male or hermaphroditic animals and can fertilize the female ovum. Sem ...