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Also known as the Plimsoll Line, the Load Line is a marking that indicates the extent to which the weight of a load may safely submerge a vessel, by way of a waterline limit.

A ship's waterline is the line where its hull meets the surface of the water. A load line, also called Plimsoll mark,1 is a marking indicating the extent to which the weight of a load may safely submerge a ship, by way of a waterline limit.

The fundamental purpose of a Load Line is to allow a maximum legal limit up to which a ship can be loaded by cargo. By prescribing such limits, the risk of having the vessel sailing with inadequate freeboard and buoyancy can be limited. A vessel should have sufficient freeboard at all times.

Put simply, ?line? refers to the wires that feed electricity, and ?load? refers to the wires that move it along. A line wire carries power from the source to a device or an appliance. The load wire moves that power to the next device on the chain.

The purpose of the load line is to ensure that a ship has sufficient freeboard (the height from the waterline to the main deck) and thus sufficient reserve buoyancy (volume of ship above the waterline). It should also ensure adequate stability and avoid excessive stress on the ship's hull as a result of overloading.

To summarize: the hot wire carries electricity from the power supply and takes it to the load (lightbulb). Neutral wires take the used electricity from the load and bring it back to the power supply.

In graphical analysis of nonlinear electronic circuits, a load line is a line drawn on the current?voltage characteristic graph for a nonlinear device like a diode or transistor. It represents the constraint put on the voltage and current in the nonlinear device by the external circuit.