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Weight Definition
Noun: weight weyt
- The vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
- Sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms
- free weight, exercising weight
- The relative importance granted to something
"his opinion carries great weight";
- weightiness
- An artifact that is heavy
- An oppressive feeling of heavy force
"bowed down by the weight of responsibility"
- A system of units used to express the weight of something
- system of weights
- A unit used to measure weight
"he placed two weights in the scale pan";
- weight unit
- (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
- weighting
- (typography) the boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes
- Add a heavy load; increase the weight of a load
- burden, burthen, weight down
- Present with a bias
- slant, angle
- (mathematics) assign weights to individual terms or statistics
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