workload
noun
work·load
ˈwərk-ˌlōd 
1
: the amount of work or of working time expected or assigned
students with a heavy workload
2
: the amount of work performed or capable of being performed (as by a mechanical device) usually within a specific period
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Students complained about the heavy workload.
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Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
No sense in worrying about the workload of the 49ers’ indestructible Christian McCaffrey.
—Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2025
At the same time, PowerInfer spreads AI workloads across the CPU and NPU to improve performance while using far less power.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
Nvidia will also tap the startup’s inference technology, which offers high throughput and low latency for running large language models and other AI workloads.
—Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 29 Dec. 2025
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“Workload.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/workload. Accessed 1 Jan. 2026.
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workload
noun
work·load
ˈwərk-ˌlōd
1
: the amount of work or of working time expected or assigned
students with a heavy workload
2
: the amount of work performed or capable of being performed usually within a specific period
a machine's workload
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