Load or LOAD may refer to:

Aeronautics and transportation

* Load factor (aeronautics), the ratio of the lift of an aircraft to its weight * Passenger load factor, 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, of a population *Late-Onset Alzheimer's disease (acronym: LOAD), a chronic neurodegenerative disease * Parasite load, of an organism * Viral load, of organisms and populations

Computing and electricity

* Load (computing), a measure of how much processing a computer performs * Electrical load, a device connected to the output of a circuit * Electronic load, 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), or load distribution, a method that improves the distribution of workloads across multiple computing resources * Load balancing (electrical power), or load distribution, the storing of excess electrical power by power stations during low demand periods, for release as demand rises * Load cell, a transducer that is used to create an electrical signal * Load factor (computer science), the ratio of the number of records to the number of addresses within a data structure * Load factor (electrical), the average power divided by the peak power over a period of time * Load file, the file used to import data into a database or to link images * Load management, 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, 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, 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 * Moving load, this is the load that changes in time the place to which is applied

Music

* Load Records, 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 Brook, a hamlet in England

Other uses

*'' The Load'', a 2018 Serbian war film *

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, 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

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