loadout
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈləʊd.aʊt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈloʊ.daʊt/, /ˈloʊ.ɾaʊt/
Noun edit
loadout (countable and uncountable, plural loadouts)
- (originally military) The set of objects (e.g., equipment, supplies) to be carried into battle; all that one needs for a specific purpose.
- 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 27:22 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?[1], archived from the original on 3 November 2022:
- Throughout this period, and beyond, into the rest of the battle, aircraft of various types and loadouts are crisscrossing the skies in desperate harassment attacks, with the pilots having to play constant games of "guess the carrier" to decide where to land as escort carriers are hit, sunk, disappear in columns of shell splashes, or are forced to evade at angles to the wind that make landing on them impossible.
- (by extension, video games) A set of items and abilities chosen by the player before embarking on an in-game mission.
- 2015, Alan F. Meades, Understanding Counterplay in Video Games:
- I've got my custom loadout, a holographic scoped assault rifle and a stock of claymore mines to use to cover my back as I look out over the wreckage of the downed transport plane for insurgents.
- The transfer of an object onto a vessel or vehicle.[1]
Related terms edit
- load up (verb)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Noble Denton Technical Policy Board, Guidelines for load-outs (PDF) (dnvgl.com)
- Quote from Definitions section, page 9:
- 'Load-out' : The transfer of a major assembly onto a barge by horizontal movement or by lifting. (For the purposes of this document, the term Barge can be considered to include Pontoon, Ship or Vessel where appropriate).
Access Date 11 March, 2016.