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functional load

noun

Definitions

  1. Targeted exposure of an implement or organ to stimuli or other straining it is supposed…

    Targeted exposure of an implement or organ to stimuli or other straining it is supposed or being tested to tolerate.

  2. A measure of how much a difference between phonemes disambiguates between different words.

    • The difference between voiced and voiceless TH in English bears a low functional load.
    • Collectively, (3) to (8) provide evidence for the reconstruction of morpheme- and root-initial *g, albeit with quite a low functional load.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for functional load. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA