maximum load
Highest safe burden
Maximum load is the greatest weight, stress, or demand that something can safely handle before failing or becoming unsafe.
Engineers calculate maximum load for bridges, elevators, and electrical circuits.
The term appears on warning labels and in specifications: Maximum load: 500 lbs.
Figuratively, it describes the upper limit of what a person or system can bear: The staff is already at maximum load.
- capacityMaximum amount containable
- carrying capacityPopulation an environment sustains
- max capacityGreatest possible amount held
- weightMeasure of heaviness
- gross weightTotal weight with container
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- load limitsweight limit, gross weight
- limiterslimiter, limit, restrictor, regulator, throttle
- loadsarmload, boatload, busload, carload, cartload
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