Loading

Loading may refer to:

Biology

 * Carbohydrate loading, a strategy employed by endurance athletes to maximize the storage of glycogen in the muscles
 * Creatine loading, a phase of use of creatine supplements
 * Vocal loading, the stress inflicted on the speech organs when speaking for long periods

Engineering

 * Application of a structural load to a system
 * Disk loading, the pressure maintained over the swept area of a helicopter's rotor
 * Seismic loading, one of the basic concepts of earthquake engineering
 * Wing loading, the loaded weight of an aircraft divided by the area of its wing
 * Loading characteristic, a measure of traffic on a telephone system
 * Insertion of an electrical load into a circuit
 * Use of a loading coil to increase inductance
 * Loading (computing), the process in which the contents of a file are read into a computer's memory

Other uses

 * Task loading, the number of tasks taken on by a diver
 * Loading (TV channel), a Brazilian TV Network focused on pop and geek culture