underloading

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noun

the act of loading insufficiently; underutilization of the capacity of something.

Opposite
Scrabble 15

Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of underload
noununderloading (countable and uncountable, plural underloadings)

plural underloadings

  1. countableuncountablethe act of loading insufficiently; underutilization of the capacity of something.

    In the above customer example, underloading required 1,772 additional truck loads to shift 1,000,000 tonne material (based on a density factor of 1.8).

    2020 October 23, “Underloading of trucks costs mines a fortune in lost production every day!”, in Australia's Mining Monthly
    1 more example

    After the first assignment the link loadings are checked manually for overloadings and/or underloadings, and the Trip Classification Table is reassessed.

    2021, Michael J. Bruton, Introduction to Transportation Planning, Routledge, →ISBN

    Antonyms: overloading

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe act of loading insufficiently; underutilization of the capacity of something.

Opposite

Translations

Russian недогру́зка
  • недогру́зка (nedogrúzka)act of loading insufficiently
Ukrainian недованта́ження
  • недованта́ження (nedovantážennja)act of loading insufficiently
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Chicago

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