Loading

Loading may refer to:

Biology

Carbohydrate loading, a strategy employed by endurance athletes to maximize the storage of glycogen in the muscles
Creatine loading, a phase of use of creatine supplements
Vocal loading, the stress inflicted on the speech organs when speaking for long periods

Application of a structural load to a system
Disk loading, the pressure maintained over the swept area of a helicopter's rotor
Seismic loading, one of the basic concepts of earthquake engineering
Wing loading, the loaded weight of an aircraft divided by the area of its wing
Loading characteristic, a measure of traffic on a telephone system
Insertion of an electrical load into a circuit
Use of a loading coil to increase inductance
Loading (computing), the process in which the contents of a file are read into a computer's memory