Load

Load may refer to:

  • Structural load, forces which are applied to a structure
  • Cargo
  • The load of a mutual fund (see Mutual fund fees and expenses)
  • The genetic load of a population
  • The parasite load of an organism
  • The viral load of organisms and populations
  • LOAD is an acronym for Late-Onset Alzheimer's disease
  • 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
  • Electrical load, a device connected to the output of a circuit
  • Electronic load, a simulated electrical load used for testing purposes
  • Load (computing), a measure of how much processing a computer performs
  • Preload, a medical term for loading of blood mass into the heart in preparation of a heartbeat.
  • Afterload, a medical term describing the maximum effect of a heartbeat driving blood mass out of the heart into the aorta and pulmonary arteries.

Famous quotes containing the word load:

    “‘Tis all men’s office to speak patience
    To those that wring under the load of sorrow,
    But no man’s virtue nor sufficiency
    To be so moral when he shall endure
    The like himself.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Belief and love,—a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “To watch another carrying a load requires no exertion.”
    —Chinese proverb.