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payload

DEFINITIONS OF: payload

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n goods carried by a large vehicle

Synonyms:
cargo, consignment, freight, lading, load, loading, shipment
Type of:
merchandise, product, ware
commodities offered for sale

n the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents

Synonyms:
load, warhead
Types:
atomic warhead, nuclear warhead, nuke, thermonuclear warhead
the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb
Type of:
explosive
a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck
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