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payload Definition

pay·load (pā′lōd′)

noun

  1. a cargo, or the part of a cargo, producing income
    1. a load that consists of anything carried by an aircraft, rocket, etc. that is not essential to its flight operations, including warheads, spacecraft, or passengers
    2. the weight of such a load

Payload Hacker Definition
Associated with a computer virus, it is the malicious software content that the virus executes. The term payload is also the actual data that is encapsulated in a packet and is transmitted on a network. Payload is also a critical concept in Web services, identifying the data that is transmitted. The payload in Web services is XML based, thus delivering the data in a standardized format that can be understood by many diverse applications.

See Also: Encapsulation; Network; Packet; Virus.

Symantec Security Response. Glossary. [Online, July 15, 2004.]. http:// securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/refa.html.
payload Telecom Definition
  1. Also known as the text field.The user data within a block, cell, frame, or packet. See also block, cell, data format, frame, packet, and text field.
  2. The user data that traverses a circuit or network, in contrast to signaling and control information and overhead. Signaling and control information is used to monitor, supervise, maintain, and otherwise manage and control a network and its components. Overhead data is used for purposes such as addressing, congestion management, error control, priority indication, and routing calls, blocks, frames, packets, and cells containing payload. See also block, cell, frame, overhead, packet, and signaling and control.
payload Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • kg: With an empty weight of 3640 kg, a payload of 2130 kg could be transported.
  • packet: In both cases, the processing ends with invoking a handler to process the data payload of the packet.

Converse of object

  • carry: All the features are designed to carry special weapons payload.
  • deliver: To deliver the equivalent payload, 5,000 bombers would have been needed.
  • handle: Optional sizes of system to handle payloads of up to 5kg.

Adjective modifier

  • malicious: How can such a program be " an exact copy " while having also been modified " with a malicious payload " ?
  • destructive: Also, it did not contain a destructive payload.
  • scientific: The scientific payload consisted of the Large Area Counter ( LAC; Turner et al.
  • maximum: The afternoon flights were now make or break with teams deciding on the maximum payload they would carry.
  • nuclear: It was intended to carry a nuclear payload for some 2,600 miles.
  • secondary: The spacecraft was launched on December 20, 1999 as a secondary payload on a Taurus launch vehicle.

Modifies a noun

  • bay: We just assumed that whatever objects we saw had come from the payload bay.
  • capacity: The weight savings could be used to increase payload capacity, increase range or reduce vehicle size for the same payload.
  • capability: The BP prototype will have little payload capability however.

Noun used with modifier

  • kg: M-PADS is expected to accommodate a 60 kg orbital payload and a 16 kg lander payload.
  • ton: The mine has ordered 28 haul trucks of 32 ton payload capacity to replace the current 180 much smaller contractor trucks.
  • packet: This keyword modifies the starting search position for the pattern match function from the beginning of the packet payload.
  • imaging: The on-board GPS receivers have confirmed the orbit and initial Earth imaging payload testing is expected to commence at the end of the week.
  • observation: The spacecraft has a remote observation payload, as well as a Lander communications package.
  • virus: The virus payload, or effect, can be annoying, harmful, or even criminal.