# dynamic loading

> mechanism by which a computer program can, at run time, load a library into memory, retrieve the addresses of functions and variables contained in the library, execute those functions or access those variables, and unload the library from memory

**Wikidata**: [Q3502426](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3502426)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_loading)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/dynamic-loading


## References

1. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)