payload

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪloʊd/

Noun

payload (plural payloads)

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.
   • 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. (computing) The functional part of a computer virus or another type of malware program, rather than the part that spreads it.
5. (communication) The actual data in a data stream.

Derived terms

• payload specialist

 

Translations

that part of a cargo that produces revenue

• Bulgarian: полезен товар (polezen tovar)
• Catalan: càrrega útil f
• Dutch: lading (nl) f
• Finnish: hyötykuorma (fi)
• French: fret (fr) m, charge utile (fr) f
• Georgian: მარგი ტვირთი (margi ṭvirti)
• German: Nutzlast (de) f
• Hungarian: hasznos teher
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nyttelast m or f

  Nynorsk: nyttelast m or f

• Russian: полезная нагру́зка (poleznaja nagrúzka)
• Swedish: nyttolast c
• Turkish: uçuş yükü
• Ukrainian: ко́ри́сне наванта́ження n (kórýsne navantážennja)

the total weight of passengers, crew, equipment and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 裝載量／装载量 (zhuāngzàiliàng), 載荷／载荷 (zh) (zàihè)

• Finnish: hyötykuorma (fi)
• French: charge utile (fr) f
• German: Nutzlast (de) f
• Italian: carico (it), carico utile m
• Norwegian: nyttelast m
• Russian: полезная нагру́зка (poleznaja nagrúzka)
• Swedish: nyttolast c
• Turkish: uçuş yükü
• Ukrainian: ко́ри́сне наванта́ження n (kórýsne navantážennja)

that part of a rocket, missile, or torpedo that is not concerned with propulsion or guidance

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 彈頭／弹头 (zh) (dàntóu)

• Finnish: hyötykuorma (fi)
• French: charge utile (fr) f
• German: Nutzlast (de) f
• Norwegian: nyttelast m or f
• Russian: боезаря́д (ru) (bojezarjád), боева́я ча́сть f (bojevája částʹ)
• Swedish: nyttolast c
• Turkish: uçuş yükü

the functional part of a computer virus rather than the part that spreads it

• French: charge utile (fr) f
• Norwegian: skadelast m

the actual data in a data stream

• Finnish: tietosisältö
• French: charge utile (fr) f
• Hungarian: hasznos adat
• Italian: carico utile m
• Norwegian: datalast m
• Russian: полезная нагру́зка (poleznaja nagrúzka)

References

• payload on Wikipedia.Wikipedia