Cargo vs Payload - What's the difference?
cargo | payload |
Freight carried by a ship, aircraft etc.
* 1806 , James Harrison, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson
* 1913 , Nephi Anderson, Story of Chester Lawrence ,
(Papua New Guinea ) Western material goods.
* 1995 , Martha Kaplan, Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji , Duke University Press, page xi
That part of a cargo that produces revenue
The total weight of passengers, crew, equipment and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft
That part of a rocket, missile, propelled stinger or torpedo that is not concerned with propulsion or guidance, such as a warhead or satellite.
(computing) The functional part of a computer virus rather than the part that spreads it
(communication) The actual data in a data stream
As nouns the difference between cargo and payload
is that cargo is freight carried by a ship, aircraft etc while payload is that part of a cargo that produces revenue.cargo
English
Noun
- "…her whole and entire cargo'; and, also, all such other ' cargoes and property as may have been landed in the island of Teneriffe,…"
- "…but human life is worth more than ships or cargos ."
- "They wrote of Pacific people with millenarian (and sometimes anti-colonial) expectations who used magical means to get western things (hence the term "cargo " cult)."