Meaning ofpayloadin English

Noun

1. revenue-generating cargo; goods
2. weight of passengers, crew, and cargo
3. non-propulsion components (warhead, satellite)
   The spacecraft carried a payload of scientific instruments to Mars.
4. actual data in a stream
   The network transmitted a large payload of user data to the server.
5. the main functional part (of malware)
   The malware delivered its payload to the target computer.