load definition

load

Overall force exerted on a body or structure.

Amount of work allotted to an individual, group, machine, or system. By extension, a load is the amount of production expected from a producer.

Energy consumption of a piece of equipment, or an entire plant.

Demand on an energy producing system.

Weight, quantity, or nature of what is being carried by a transporting vehicle.

Standard volume of a material such as produce or sand. In the UK, a load is typically 40 bushels (1.4 cubic meters); in the US, it is one cubic yard (0.76 cubic meters).

Amount of fee charged on a transaction.

load is in the Accounting & Auditing, Advertising, Marketing, & Sales, Industries, Manufacturing, & Technology and Shipping, Transport, & Travel subjects.

load appears in the definitions of the following terms: effective capacity, load shedding, structural design, Mullen burst test, co-load, unitized load, palletization, payload, distributed printing, backload and

load appears in the other terms: ultimate load, consolidated load, shipper's load and count, inventory loading, load factor, heat load, load shifting, unit load device (ULD), hidden load, level load and

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