Load

Load is what is carried, or a force.

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

1. The power consumed by a device or circuit in performing its function.
2. A power-consuming device connected to a circuit.
3. An instruction to enter data or programs into storage or working registers.
4. To insert data values into a database that previously contained no occurrences of data.
5. For computing, see load (computing).
6. 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)

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

See also: lode