Loading may refer to:

Biology

Carbohydrate loading Carbohydrate loading, commonly referred to as carb-loading, or carbo-loading, is a strategy used by endurance athletes, such as marathoners and triathlon, triathletes, to reduce fatigue during an endurance event by maximizing the storage of glyco ...

, a strategy employed by endurance athletes to maximize the storage of glycogen in the muscles * Creatine loading, a phase of use of

creatine supplements Creatine ( or ) is an organic compound with the nominal formula . It exists in various tautomers in solutions (among which are neutral form and various zwitterionic forms). Creatine is found in vertebrates, where it facilitates recycling of ...

Vocal loading Vocal loading is the stress inflicted on the speech organs when speaking for long periods. Background Of the working population, about 13% have professions where their voice is their primary tool. That includes professions such as teachers, sales ...

, the stress inflicted on the speech organs when speaking for long periods

Engineering

* Application of a

structural load A structural load or structural action is a mechanical load (more generally a force) applied to Structural engineering#Structural elements, structural elements. A load causes stress (physics), stress, deformation (engineering), deformation, displa ...

to a system **

Disk loading In fluid dynamics, disk loading or disc loading is the average pressure change across an actuator disk, such as an airscrew. Airscrews with a relatively low disk loading are typically called rotors, including helicopter Helicopter rotor, main ro ...

, the pressure maintained over the swept area of a helicopter's rotor **

Seismic loading Seismic loading is one of the basic concepts of earthquake engineering which means application of an earthquake-generated agitation to a structure. It happens at contact surfaces of a structure either with the ground, or with adjacent structures, ...

, one of the basic concepts of earthquake engineering **

Wing loading In aerodynamics, wing loading is the total weight of an aircraft or flying animal divided by the area of its wing. The stalling speed, takeoff speed and landing speed of an aircraft are partly determined by its wing loading. The faster an airc ...

, the loaded weight of an aircraft divided by the area of its wing *

Loading characteristic In multichannel telephone systems, the loading characteristic is a plot, for the busy hour, of the equivalent mean power and the peak power as a function of the number of voice channels. The equivalent power of a multichannel signal A s ...

, a measure of traffic on a telephone system * Insertion of an

electrical load An electrical load is an electrical component or portion of a Electric Circuit, circuit that consumes (active) electric power, such as electrical appliances and Electric light, lights inside the home. The term may also refer to the power Power con ...

into a circuit ** Use of a

loading coil A loading coil or load coil is an inductor that is inserted into an electronic circuit to increase its inductance. The term originated in the 19th century for inductors used to prevent signal distortion in long-distance telegraph transmission c ...

to increase inductance *

Loading (computing) In computer systems a loader is the part of an operating system that is responsible for loading programs and libraries. It is one of the essential stages in the process of starting a program, as it places programs into memory and prepares them f ...

, the process in which the contents of a file are read into a computer's memory

Other uses

Task loading A task load indicates the degree of difficulty experienced when performing a task, and task loading describes the accumulation of tasks that are necessary to perform an operation. A light task loading can be managed by the operator with capacity to ...

, the number of tasks taken on by a diver * Loading (TV channel), a Brazilian TV Network focused on pop and geek culture

Biology

Engineering

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