Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of underload
plural underloadings
- 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 Monthly1 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, →ISBNAntonyms: overloading
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe act of loading insufficiently; underutilization of the capacity of something.
Translations
Russian недогру́зка
- недогру́зка (nedogrúzka)act of loading insufficiently
Ukrainian недованта́ження
- недованта́ження (nedovantážennja)act of loading insufficiently
Cite this entry
underloading. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underloading
“underloading.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underloading. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “underloading,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/underloading.
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