load factor (English, noun)
expansion: load factor (plural load factors)
Senses:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The acceleration experienced by an aircraft along a given axis at a particular instant in time.
topics: transport
glosses: The percentage of a transportation system's maximum passenger capacity that is actually used.
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: 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.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The proportion of the buckets in a hash table which contain entries.
Forms:
form: load factors
tags: plural