Load

Load or LOAD may refer to:

• 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)

• 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

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

• 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, forces which apply to a structure
• Wind load
• Moving load, this is the load that changes in time the place to which is applied

• 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

• Load, Kentucky
• Load Brook, a hamlet in England

• The Load, a 2018 Serbian war film
• Cargo, 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
• Load, put cartridges into a firearm

• Loaded (disambiguation)
• Loader (disambiguation)
• Loading (disambiguation)
• Lod
• Lode
• Preload (disambiguation)