load factor

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   (aeronautics) the ratio of an external load to the weight of the aircraft (measured in g)

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   aeronautics

Questions about load factor

What does load factor mean?

load factor means "(aeronautics) the ratio of an external load to the weight of the aircraft (measured in g)".

Is load factor a common word?

load factor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.