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The weight a system agrees to carry before it starts complaining.
means The amount of weight, work, or material that something carries, or the act of putting that burden onto it.
from From Old English 'lad,' which originally meant a way, course, or journey — the thing you carried was tied to the carrying of it along a path. Over time the sense drifted from the journey itself to the cargo borne on it, settling into the Middle English 'load' we use today. Its old travel-sense cousin survives in words like 'lode,' as in lodestar and lodestone — the way that leads.
- origin
- old english lad meant course or way
- electrical sense
- the device that drains the power, not supplies it
- psychology term
- cognitive load measures mental effort, not intelligence
- programming use
- loading a file just copies it into memory