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noun
2.
the number of paying passengers, as on an airplane.
3.
Aerospace, Military.
a.
the bomb load, warhead, cargo, or passengers of an aircraft, a rocket, missile, etc., for delivery at a target or destination.
b.
the total complement of equipment carried by a spacecraft for the performance of a particular mission in space.
c.
the explosive energy of the warhead of a missile or of the bomb load of an aircraft: a payload of 50 megatons.
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| —n | |
| 1. | that part of a cargo earning revenue |
| 2. | a. the passengers, cargo, or bombs carried by an aircraft |
| b. the equipment carried by a rocket, satellite, or spacecraft | |
| 3. | the explosive power of a warhead, bomb, etc, carried by a missile or aircraft: a missile carrying a 50-megaton payload |
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Payload
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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Word Origin & History
payload
1930, from pay (n. or v.) + load (n.). Originally the part of an aircraft's load from which revenue is derived (passengers, cargo, mail); fig. sense of "bombs, etc. carried by a plane or missile" is from 1936.
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Example sentences
The latter payload successfully separated, unfurled itself, and has been exciting space scientists since.
Scientists have doubled the payload of today's popcorn-at the expense of taste.
Every minute or so, a new one pulls up ahead of the paving machines to release a flood of wet concrete from its payload.
Anyway, in this case severe instability or a shutdown would be the payload and a policing system would never notice it.
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