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Load factor
Meaning
Noun
●
In Aviation:
The
acceleration
experienced
by an
aircraft
along a given
axis
at a particular
instant
in time.
●
In Transport:
The
percentage
of a
transportation
system's
maximum
passenger
capacity
that is
actually
used.
●
In Electrical engineering:
The
mean
load
over a given
time period
divided
by the
peak
load
occurring
during the same
time period
,
providing
a
measure
of how
efficiently
an
electric
system's
capacity
is being used.
●
In Computing:
The
proportion
of the
buckets
in a
hash table
which
contain
entries.
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