using loss of load in their definitions, with the more popular being Loss of Load Probability (LOLP) that characterizes a probability of a loss of load occurring...

No-load loss (also called "fixed loss") is a portion of the loss of electricity that does not depend on the power being distributed through an electric...

Load-loss factor (also loss load factor, LLF, or simply loss factor) is a dimensionless ratio between average and peak values of load loss (loss of electric...

Load rejection in an electric power system is the condition in which there is a sudden load loss in the system which causes the generating equipment to...

damage, death, and/or monetary losses. Structural failure refers to the loss of structural integrity, or the loss of load-carrying structural capacity in...

Parasitic load or parasitic loss may refer to in internal combustion engines, it refers to devices that take energy from the engine in order to enhance...

to convey power from a source to a load with minimal loss. If a transmission line is correctly matched to a load, the reflected power will be zero, no...

of loss of load, for example, on an isolated wind or mini-hydro plant. An electronic load (or e-load) is a device or assembly that simulates loading on...

efficient but require exchanges of information between the different computing units, at the risk of a loss of efficiency. A load-balancing algorithm always...

regardless of whether the windings are made of copper or another conductor, such as aluminium. Hence the term winding loss is often preferred. The term load loss...

excess of the expected load, calculated to satisfy the loss of load expectation, typically 1 day in 10 years. IRM is used to measure the adequacy of the...

transmitted to the load before insertion is PT and the power received by the load after insertion is PR, then the insertion loss in decibels is given...

transducer. As the force applied to the load cell increases, the signal changes proportionally. The most common types of load cells are pneumatic, hydraulic,...

areas. The loss factor is often confused with load factor, but the formulas for each term vary. The loss factor is calculated as follows: Loss factor  =...

transformer losses vary with load, it is often useful to tabulate no-load loss, full-load loss, half-load loss, and so on. Hysteresis and eddy current losses are...

back to the load, until all of the signal's power is emitted or absorbed by the load. Mismatch loss (ML) is the ratio of incident power to the difference...

added into the series of standards. When the loss of load happens (generation capacity falls below the load), utilities may impose load shedding (also known...

Weight loss, in the context of medicine, health, or physical fitness, refers to a reduction of the total body mass, by a mean loss of fluid, body fat (adipose...

greater load is required, then factor of safety must be increased in order to compensate for loss of load due to friction. Friction loss is not as much of an...

the system exceeds its capacity; loss of load expectation (LOLE) is the total duration of the expected loss of load events in days, LOLH is its equivalent...

load (GL) of food is a number that estimates how much the food will raise a person's blood glucose level after it is eaten. One unit of glycemic load...

decision theory, a loss function or cost function (sometimes also called an error function) is a function that maps an event or values of one or more variables...

speed in excess of design limits) if the unit is operated with no significant mechanical load. On larger motors, sudden loss of load is to be avoided...

or load shedding is an ongoing period of widespread national blackouts of electricity supply. It began in the later months of 2007 towards the end of Thabo...

to the common areas of a building used to calculate the difference between the net (usable) and gross (billable) areas. Load-loss factor, in electricity...

electrical engineering, the power factor of an AC power system is defined as the ratio of the real power absorbed by the load to the apparent power flowing in...

transformers depends on the load profile. The factory specification of transformers for the optimization of load losses versus no-load losses is dependent directly...

predicted that an increase in the rate of loss of load carrying capacity would result in an increased displacement of the surrounding rock. The shifts would...

decline of earthworm diversity: "(1) soil degradation and habitat loss, (2) climate change, (3) excessive nutrient and other forms of contamination load, (4)...

impedance of the driven stage (load) is much larger than the output impedance of the drive stage (source). In AC circuits carrying power, the losses of energy...