Loading
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
Other uses: ▪ Task loading, the number of tasks taken on by a diver...