Load balancing or load distribution may refer to:
- Load balancing (computing), balancing a workload amongst multiple computer devices
- Load balancing (electrical power), the storing of excess electrical power by power stations during low demand periods, for release as demand rises
- Weight distribution, the apportioning of weight within a vehicle, especially cars, airplanes, and watercraft
- Production leveling, a pre-requisite to allow 'flow' in the factory
Famous quotes containing the words load and/or balancing:
“Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a “taxing- machine;” to the contented, a “machine for securing property.” Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)