payload
UK/ˈpeɪləʊd//ˈpeɪloʊd/
payload noun: that part of a cargo that produces revenue.
Noun
payload (plural payloads)
- That part of a cargo that produces revenue.
- The total weight of passengers, crew, equipment, and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft.
- That part of a rocket, missile, propelled stinger, or torpedo that is not concerned with propulsion or guidance, such as a warhead or satellite.
- I spread disease like a dog / Discharge my payload a mile high / Rotten egg air of death wrestles your nostrils1990, Dave Mustaine, "Rust in Peace... Polaris", Megadeth, Rust in Peace.
- 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...2024 September 23, Vanessa Montalbano, “Air Force interested in advanced booster for hypersonic weapons”, in Inside Defense
- The functional part of a computer virus or another type of malware program, rather than the part that spreads it.
- The actual data in a data stream.
payload meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
payload in Hindi
- पेलोड, पे-लोड
payload in Tamil
- தாங்குசுமை, தள்ளுசுமை, ஏற்பு சுமை
payload in Marathi
- पेलोड, पे-लोड
payload in Urdu
- پے لوڈ, پےلوڈ
More languagesFewer languages
- payload in Bengali
- পেলোড, পে-লোড, পে'লোড
- payload in Telugu
- పేలోడ్
- payload in Malayalam
- പേലോഡ്
- payload in Kannada
- ಹೊರಬಲ್ಲ ತೂಕ
- payload in Punjabi
- ਪੇਲੋਡ, ਪੇਅਲੋਡ, ਪੇ-ਲੋਡ
- payload in Gujarati
- પેલોડ, પે-લોડ
- payload in Odia
- ପେଲୋଡ, ପେଲୋଡ୍, ପେ-ଲୋଡ
- payload in Nepali
- पेलोड, पे-लोड, पेलोड (पेलोड
Examples of payload in a sentence
- Payload princess is an unappreciated position to find oneself in. Rarely does anyone congratulate you for actually sitting on the objective whilst everyone else frolics on ahead.
- The researchers found that "instead of exiftool detecting the metadata of the file it executes our payload."
- In addition to out-of-spec traffic, malicious packets can contain payloads that cause a system to crash.
Forms of payload
| plural | payloads |
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Origin of payload
From pay + load. From the early 20th century.
Words formed from payload
Phrases with payload
Questions about payload
- What does payload mean?
- Payload means that part of a cargo that produces revenue.
- What is payload in Hindi?
- Payload in Hindi is पेलोड, पे-लोड. See Payload meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is payload?
- Payload is a noun.
- How do you pronounce payload?
- Payload is pronounced /ˈpeɪloʊd/ (US).
- What is the plural of payload?
- The plural of payload is payloads.
Words near payload in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: payload (page history and authors); payload (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); payload (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); payload (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); payload (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); payload (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); payload (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); payload (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); payload (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); payload (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); payload (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); payload (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); payload (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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