Load or LOAD may refer to:

Aeronautics and transportation

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

, 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, of a population *Late-onset

Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease and the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events. As the disease advances, symptoms can include problems wit ...

(acronym: LOAD), a chronic neurodegenerative disease * Parasite load, of an organism * Viral load, 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 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 ...

, 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) 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 response time and avoid unevenly ov ...

, 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 load cell converts a force such as tension, compression, pressure, or torque into a signal (electrical, pneumatic or hydraulic pressure, or mechanical displacement indicator) that can be measured and standardized. It is a force transducer. As t ...

, 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 A load file in the litigation community is commonly referred to as the file used to import data (coded, captured or extracted data from Electronically stored information (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure), ESI processing) into a database; or the ...

, 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 Load balancing (electrical power), balancing the supply of electricity on the network with the electrical load by adjusting or controlling the load rather than the pow ...

, also known as demand side management (DSM), the process of balancing the supply of electricity on the network with the electrical load * Load testing, 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 mechanical load (more generally a force) applied to Structural engineering#Structural elements, structural elements. A load causes stress (physics), stress, deformation (engineering), deformation, displa ...

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

, a hamlet in England

Other uses

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The Load ''The Load'' () 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 Feature Film at the 2018 ...

'', a 2018 Serbian war film *

Cargo In transportation, cargo refers to goods transported by land, water or air, while freight refers to its conveyance. In economics, freight refers to goods transported at a freight rate for commercial gain. The term cargo is also used in cas ...

, 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 a ''load'' *Load, a sexual slang term for

semen Semen, also known as seminal fluid, is a bodily fluid that contains spermatozoon, spermatozoa which is secreted by the male gonads (sexual glands) and other sexual organs of male or hermaphrodite, hermaphroditic animals. In humans and placen ...

*Load, put cartridges into a

firearm A firearm is any type of gun that uses an explosive charge and is designed to be readily carried and operated by an individual. The term is legally defined further in different countries (see legal definitions). The first firearms originate ...