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Definitions: Payload |
PayloadNoun1. The part of a missile or torpedo that carries the explosive charge. 2. Goods carried by a large vehicle. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Aerospace | 1. Originally, the revenue-producing portion of an aircraft's load, e.g., passengers, cargo, mail, etc.2. By extension, that which an aircraft, rocket, or the like carries over and above what is necessary for the operation of the vehicle for its flight. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | The operating or mission accomplishing equipment, including associated telemetry, which is carried in the final stage of a spacebooster. Source: European Union. (references) |
Math | The complement of instruments that are accommodated on a spacecraft. (references) |
Military & Defense | The warhead, its container, and activating devices in a military missile. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | The information portion of an ATM cell, exclusive of header. ATM cells typically have 48-byte payloads, but size can vary depending upon type of data and AAL. Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | The instruments that are accommodated on a spacecraft. (references) |
Sports & Leisure | An object upstream of a parachute. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | The total weight of the loads in the vehicles hauled. Source: European Union. (references) |
Weather | The combination of instrument and direct instrument support (e.g., processing, covers, antennas, thermal control) that works in conjunction with the Bus to meet space segment allocated requirements. (spacecraft). (references) |
| The portion of the total launch vehicle that will be deployed in space. In this context it is synonymous with spacecraft portion of the space segment. (launch vehicle). (references) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Similarly, in military aircraft, payload is the carrying capacity of an aircraft, whether as cargo, munitions, or external fuel, although internal fuel is usually not included. In communications and information science, a payload is a set of data, such as a data field, block, or stream, being processed or transported, the part that represents user information and user overhead information, and may include user-requested additional information, such as network management and accounting information.
Note: The payload does not include system overhead information for the processing or transportation system. Synonym mission bit stream.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Payload."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| PAM | English | Payload Assistant Module | Transportation |
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Synonyms: PayloadSynonyms: cargo (n), consignment (n), freight (n), lading (n), load (n), loading (n), shipment (n), warhead (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Payload |
| English words defined with "payload": nose cone ♦ ogive ♦ throw-weight. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "payload": actual vehicle weight ♦ downloading, dry weight ♦ exceptional overload ♦ first stage canopy ♦ Launch Vehicle, load manifest ♦ minitrack ♦ payload mass ratio, payload-support equipment, protocol data unit ♦ reentry vehicle ♦ soft landing, Synchronous Digital Hierarchy ♦ task scheduling, transport capacity ♦ unified system, utility aircraft ♦ virtual tributary. (references) |
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Lyrics | This one dropped a payload ("Optimistic"; performing artist: Radiohead) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | STS-93 Payload Bay Door Closure.Credit: NASA. |  | McCandless on Arm in Aft Payload Bay.Credit: NASA. |
 | Doi in Aft Payload Bay Window.Credit: NASA. |  | Assembling Structures in the Payload Bay.Credit: NASA. |
 | The U.S. Air Force successfully launched an Atlas 2AS rocket Dec. 5 at 9:47 p.m. EST. The payload it lofted into space is a satellite designed, built and operated by the National Reconnaissance Office. (Courtesy photo). |  | Ready for a payload. Inspectors check the assembly of a railway carriage which will soon carry an 8-inch gun. The guns are turned out in an eastern plant.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Payload" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Payload" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 36 | 57,479 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "payload": missile payload ♦ payload capacity. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "payload": payload-support. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
payload | 23 |
aircraft payload system | 5 |
magazine payload | 4 |
payload plus | 3 |
engineer payload resume | 3 |
kelty payload | 2 |
25mm payload rifle | 2 |
chart payload range | 2 |
box payload tool | 2 |
ii kelty payload | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "payload"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | полезен товар. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 酬載 , "费载重量. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | payload, pålæsset tonnage, nyttelast (live load, live loading, live weight, load capacity, net weight hauled, pay load, useful load), nettolast (effective load, effective tonnage, net load, net tonnage, net weight, real weight), lastevolumen, last (burden, charge, electric load, forebody, load, press head, suspended load, vehicle), informationsfelt (INFO, information field). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | payload, nuttige last, nuttige lading (useful load), netto treingewicht (net weight hauled), netto belading (effective load, effective tonnage, net load, net tonnage, net weight, real weight), LV (Latvia, Republic of Latvia), last (burden, charge, forebody, load, suspended load, trouble, vehicle), ladinggoed, lading (batch, blasting charge, burden, cargo, cart load, charge, cycle, electric charge, electricity, explosive charge, fill, filling, forebody, heat, ladle, load, loading, melt, mucking, power-loading, round, round of charges, stock, suspended load, vehicle), laadvermogen (capacity, live weight, load capacity, loading capacity, pay load, tonnage, trailer capacity), geladen tonnage, baatlast. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | اجناس مقرون بصرفه برای حمل ونقل , ظرفیت ترابری . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hyötykuorma (forebody, suspended load, vehicle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tonnage chargé, masse satellisable, CU, charge utile remorquée, charge utile (pay load), charge payante, charge nette, charge marchande, charge, champ de données. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Nutzlast (effective load, effective tonnage, live weight, load capacity, net load, net tonnage, net weight, net weight hauled, pay load, real weight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καθαρό φορτίο (effective load, effective tonnage, net load, net tonnage, net weight, real weight), ωφέλιμος φόρτος, ωφέλιμο φορτίο (effective load, effective tonnage, live weight, load capacity, net load, net tonnage, net weight, pay load, real weight, tonnage, useful load), φορτίο επί πληρωμή. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hasznos teher, hasznos súly. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | carico utile (effective load, effective tonnage, net load, net tonnage, net weight, net weight hauled, real weight, useful load). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ペーパー電 (double glazing, dragon boat, pain clinic, paint, pair, pair occupation, pair skating, pairing, pair-oar, pair-wise, paper cell, parent, pavement, pavement artist, pay, pay bridge, payday, payload specialist, payment, pear, Pegasus, per, races with such boats, unmarried couple living together). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ペイロードスペシャリスト (payload specialist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 탑재량. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ayloadpay folha de pagamentos (pay bill, pay-box, payroll, pc, wage bill), corpo anterior (forebody, suspended load, vehicle), carga útil rebocada (net weight hauled), carga útil (effective load, effective tonnage, net load, net tonnage, net weight, net weight hauled, real weight, useful load). (various references) sarcinã utilã (working load), încãrcãturã utilã (working load). (various references) платный груз. (various references) plaćeni teret, korisna nosivost, bojeva glava sa punjenjem. (various references) carga útil (effective load, effective tonnage, net load, net tonnage, net weight, net weight hauled, real weight, useful load). (various references) vikt av totallast (net weight hauled). (various references) корисний вантаж. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "payload": payloads. (additional references) | |
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"Payload" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Polyfoam, Polyzoa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "payload" (pronounced pā"lō'd) |
| 3 | -l ō' d | boatload, carload, caseload, download, overload, planeload, shipload, truckload, workload. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-l-o-p-y" | |
-1 letter: apodal, payola. | |
-2 letters: playa. | |
-3 letters: apod, dopa, dopy, lady, load, odyl, oldy, opal, paly, play, plod, ploy, poly, yald. | |
-4 letters: aal, ado, ala, alp, dal, dap, day, dol, lad, lap, lay, lop, old, pad, pal, pay, ply, pod, pol, pya, yap, yod. | |
-5 letters: aa, ad, al, ay, do, la, lo, od, op, oy, pa, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-l-o-p-y" | |
+1 letter: payloads. | |
+3 letters: pardonably. | |
+4 letters: cladophylla, cyclopaedia. | |
+5 letters: adoptability, cyclopaedias, diaphanously, sporadically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 79 6C 6F 61 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- -.--. .-.. --- .- -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01111001 01101100 01101111 01100001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a y l o a d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0079 006C 006F 0061 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50679178816770 |
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