Load

Load is what is carried, or a force.

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In electronics, telecommunication and computing, the term load has the following meanings:

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• The power consumed by a device or circuit in performing its function.
• A power-consuming device connected to a circuit.
• An instruction to enter data or programs into storage or working registers.
• To insert data values into a database that previously contained no occurrences of data.
• For computing, see load (computing).
• To place a magnetic tape reel on a tape drive, or to place punch cards into the hopper of a card punch or reader.

(Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188)

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• The band Metallica released an album called Load.
• Genetic load, a specific form of which is mutational load.
• Parasite load.

See also: lode

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Electronics: The field of electronics is the study and use of systems that operate by controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles in devices such as thermionic valves and semiconductors. The design and construction of electronic circuits to solve practical problems is part of the fi...

Telecommunication: Telecommunication refers to communication over long distances. In practice, something of the message may be lost in the process. 'Telecommunication' covers all forms of distance and/or conversion of the original communications, including radio, telegraphy, television, telephony, data communication ...

Computing: Originally, the word computing was synonymous with counting and calculating, and a science that deals with the original sense of computing mathematical calculations....

Load related Images and Photos (experimental)

Lock N Load T-Shirt	Super Strong, Load-Bearing Keychain	Lock N Load Aim at the Duck T-Shirt	Lock N Load I Aim to Please T-Shirt
Lock N Load Don't Go Off Half Cocked T-Shirt	Lock N Load Piece Out America T-Shirt	Little People Builders Load and Go Wagon	MSET Inspectors Clocking NY Load Team's Time in 1985 SAC Weapons Load Competition at Ellsworth AFB
Weapons Load Competition for Barrantine Trophy at Ellsworth AFB	Truck Load of Bodies of Prisoners of Nazis in Buchenwald Concentration Camp	Two Children Bring Home a Barrow-Load of Firewood for the Christmas Fire	Girl Stands at a Stile with a Load of Holly and a Sprig of Mistletoe