Dictionary

payload en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈpeɪloʊd/ (General-American)
• /ˈpeɪləʊd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (US) audio

Etymology

From pay + load. From the early 20th century.

Meanings

1. That part of a cargo that produces revenue.
2. The total weight of passengers, crew, equipment, and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft.
3. That part of a rocket, missile, propelled stinger, or torpedo that is not concerned with propulsion or guidance, such as a warhead or satellite.
   • Vendors must also describe to the Air Force whether they have experience integrating the device with payloads from other businesses, if they are capable of supporting flight test operations and working with ground support equipment and how soon the capability can be delivered. “Thrust Vector control must be included as a control methodology,” the service wrote in the request. “Other capability measurements of interest are, but not limited to, flight path angle, total impulse, speed, range, payload characteristics. 2024 September 23, Vanessa Montalbano, “Air Force interested in advanced booster for hypersonic weapons”, in Inside Defense:
   • 1990, Dave Mustaine, "Rust in Peace... Polaris", Megadeth, Rust in Peace. I spread disease like a dog / Discharge my payload a mile high / Rotten egg air of death wrestles your nostrils
4. The functional part of a computer virus or another type of malware program, rather than the part that spreads it.
5. The actual data in a data stream.

Forms

Deriveds

multipayload · warload · payload specialist

Translations (47)

de Nutzlast (the total weight of passengers, crew, equipment and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft) · fr charge utile (the actual data in a data stream) · ru боева́я ча́сть (that part of a rocket, missile, or torpedo that is not concerned with propulsion or guidance) · fi hyötykuorma (that part of a rocket, missile, or torpedo that is not concerned with propulsion or guidance) · fi tietosisältö (the actual data in a data stream) · sv nyttolast (that part of a rocket, missile, or torpedo that is not concerned with propulsion or guidance) · ru полезная нагру́зка (the actual data in a data stream) · ru полезная нагру́зка (the total weight of passengers, crew, equipment and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft) · fr charge utile (that part of a rocket, missile, or torpedo that is not concerned with propulsion or guidance) · es cargamento cobrable (that part of a cargo that produces revenue) · fr fret (that part of a cargo that produces revenue) · it carico utile (the actual data in a data stream) · cmn 載荷 /载荷 (the total weight of passengers, crew, equipment and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft) · sv nyttolast (that part of a cargo that produces revenue) · es cargamento útil (that part of a cargo that produces revenue) · nb nyttelast (that part of a cargo that produces revenue) · no nyttelast (the total weight of passengers, crew, equipment and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft) · bg полезен товар (that part of a cargo that produces revenue) · sv nyttolast (the total weight of passengers, crew, equipment and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft) · nn nyttelast (that part of a cargo that produces revenue) · de Nutzlast (that part of a rocket, missile, or torpedo that is not concerned with propulsion or guidance) · tr uçuş yükü (that part of a rocket, missile, or torpedo that is not concerned with propulsion or guidance) · uk ко́ри́сне наванта́ження (the total weight of passengers, crew, equipment and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft) · uk ко́ри́сне наванта́ження (that part of a cargo that produces revenue) · it carico utile (the total weight of passengers, crew, equipment and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft) · it carico (the total weight of passengers, crew, equipment and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft) · fi hyötykuorma (that part of a cargo that produces revenue) · fr charge utile (the total weight of passengers, crew, equipment and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft) · cmn 彈頭 /弹头 (that part of a rocket, missile, or torpedo that is not concerned with propulsion or guidance) · ru полезная нагру́зка (that part of a cargo that produces revenue) · tr uçuş yükü (the total weight of passengers, crew, equipment and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft) · no skadelast (the functional part of a computer virus rather than the part that spreads it) · no datalast (the actual data in a data stream) · ka მარგი ტვირთი (that part of a cargo that produces revenue) · nl lading (that part of a cargo that produces revenue) · fr charge utile (the functional part of a computer virus rather than the part that spreads it) · de Nutzlast (that part of a cargo that produces revenue) · es cargamento cobradero (that part of a cargo that produces revenue) · ru боезаря́д (that part of a rocket, missile, or torpedo that is not concerned with propulsion or guidance) · ca càrrega útil (that part of a cargo that produces revenue) · fi hyötykuorma (the total weight of passengers, crew, equipment and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft) · no nyttelast (that part of a rocket, missile, or torpedo that is not concerned with propulsion or guidance) · hu hasznos adat (the actual data in a data stream) · cmn 裝載量 /装载量 (the total weight of passengers, crew, equipment and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft) · hu hasznos teher (that part of a cargo that produces revenue) · fr charge utile (that part of a cargo that produces revenue) · tr uçuş yükü (that part of a cargo that produces revenue)