ladning

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Danish

Noun

ladning c (singular definite ladningen, plural indefinite ladninger)

  1. (physics) charge
    En elektron har en negativ ladning.
    An electron has a negative charge.
  2. load
    • 1760, Skrifter, som udi det Kiøbenhavske Selskab af Lærdoms og Videnskabers Elskere, page 81:
      Om Foraaret seylede Leif hjem til Grønland, og bragte med sig en Ladning af Vindruer, Vin-Træ, Hvede og Mosur-Træ. Dette Land kaldte han Vinland.
      In the spring, Leif sailed home to Greenland, and brought with him a load of grapes, vines, wheat and Mosur wood. He called this land Vinland (Wine-Country).
    • 1844, Thorvaldsensk Album, samlet og udgivet af F. Barfod, page 119:
      Enhver Konstven mindes den rige Ladning af thorvaldsenske Skulpturer, som Korvetten Galathea for et Par Aar siden hidbragte; Fregatten Belona, som nu dagligen kan ventes hertil, har en lignende ombord.
      Any lover of art remembers the rich load of Thorvaldian sculptures brought hither by the corvette Galathea a few years ago; the frigat Belona, which may now daily be expected here, has a similar onboard.