Loading

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Loading is the act of placing a force or burden upon an object or network.

More specifically, loading may refer to:

In biology:

• Carbohydrate loading, a strategy employed by endurance athletes to maximize the storage of glycogen in the muscles
• Creatine loading, a phase of use of creatine supplements
• Vocal loading, the stress inflicted on the speech organs when speaking for long periods

In engineering:

• Application of a structural load to a system
  • Disk loading, the pressure maintained over the swept area of a helicopter's rotor
  • Seismic loading, one of the basic concepts of earthquake engineering
  • Wing loading, the loaded weight of an aircraft divided by the area of its wing
• Loading characteristic, a measure of traffic on a telephone system
• Insertion of an electrical load into a circuit
  • Use of a loading coil to increase inductance
• Loading (computing), the process in which the contents of an executable file are read into a computer's memory

Other uses:

• Task loading, the number of tasks taken on by a diver

See also

• Lading or cargo
• Load (disambiguation)
• Loaded (disambiguation)
• Loader (disambiguation)