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A shape with one half shaded: run the cycle on a partly filled machine.
Also known as: Half filled circle on a dishwasher, Half load, Split symbol on an appliance
A divided glyph, usually a circle or a basket with one side filled. It shortens the cycle and cuts water for a small load — and on a modern machine with automatic load sensing it is often redundant.
Where a dishwasher offers upper- and lower-basket variants, the mark shows which basket is served, and loading the other one produces an entirely unwashed load.
A symbol with one half shaded or filled, marking a programme adapted to a partly loaded machine by reducing water, energy and time.
What a given programme actually does is in the appliance's own instructions. The symbol names the function; the manufacturer decides how it behaves.
Contexts: Electrical equipment
Increasingly redundant. Machines that sense load weight or water turbidity adjust automatically, so the control persists on appliances that no longer need it.
A circle or rectangle divided down the middle with one half filled solid and the other left as outline.