wing loading

1. 1.

   the ratio of the weight of an airplane to its wing area

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Questions about wing loading

What does wing loading mean?

wing loading means "the ratio of the weight of an airplane to its wing area".

Is wing loading a common word?

wing loading 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.