3 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "A more detailed answer (i.e. making a case for your suggestion and explaining why "loading characteristics" would be correct in this context) would have got you the maximum points. As it stands, I am not convinced beyond doubt about this term, so you only get 3, and I'm not entering it in the glossary. However, my own research of "Struktur" has revealed that it can mean things like "format" or "pattern", so "characteristics" is not too much of a stretch from there. For this job, it'll have to do. Thanks Doc. :-) And thanks also to Klaus for having a go. No thanks, however, to the peer graders, who failed to materialise. A few "agrees" one way or the other could have been of enormous benefit here. Never mind. Guess I'll just have to take the Doc's word on this occasion. :-)"