Load factor

Load factor may refer to:

• Capacity factor, the ratio of the actual output of a power plant over a period of time and its output if it had operated a full capacity of that time period
• Load factor (aerodynamics), n, is the vector expressed by the ratio of the resulting mass force acting on an aircraft and the weight of the aircraft, n = (W + Fi) / | W | = (g + a) / g = 1 + a / g where W is the weight of the aircraft and Fi is the inertia force
• Load factor (transportation), the ratio of revenue passenger miles to available seat miles of a particular transportation operation (ie, a flight, a train, etc).
• Load factor (computer science), the ratio of the number of records to the number of addresses or indexes within a data structure, see hash table#Load_factor
• Load factor (electrical) is the average power divided by the peak power over a period of time, see demand factor
• Load factor (structural) is a number by which a specified load is multiplied to determine the required design load, see dead load, live load and structural design

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