Dictionary Definition
payload
Noun
1 the front part of a guided missile or rocket or
torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the
chemical or biological agents [syn: warhead, load]
2 goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, shipment, consignment]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
Translations
That part of a cargo that produces revenue
- Finnish: hyötykuorma
The total weight of passengers, crew, equipment
and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft
- Finnish: hyötykuorma
The explosive in the warhead of a missile
The functional part of a computer virus rather
than the part that spreads it
The actual data in a data stream
- Finnish: tietosisältö
Extensive Definition
Payload may refer to:
- Cargo, goods or produce being delivered or transported
- Payload (air and space craft), the net carrying capacity of an aircraft or spacecraft (as distinct from throw weight)
- Warhead, a payload composed of explosive materials and a detonator delivered by a missile, rocket, or torpedo
- Payload (software), a computer program delivered by encapsulation, or the part of a data stream representing the user information and user overhead.
Payload may also refer to:
- Payload (Transformers) - a fictional character.
payload in German: Nutzlast
payload in Modern Greek (1453-): Ωφέλιμο
φορτίο
payload in Spanish: Carga útil
payload in Persian: بار مفید
payload in French: Charge utile
payload in Hebrew: מטעד
payload in Italian: Payload
payload in Latvian: Derīgā krava
payload in Japanese: ペイロード
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
atomic warhead, baggage, bird, blast, burden, cargo, carload, cartload, charge, consignment, freight, freightage, full load,
goods, guided missile,
haul, impedimenta, lading, load, luggage, missile, nuclear warhead,
pack, rocket, shipload, shipment, thermonuclear
warhead, torpedo,
trailerload,
trainload, truckload, vanload, war rocket, warhead