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Definition of weight:
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 the relative importance granted to something; "his opinion carries great weight"; "the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed" 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 a unit used to measure weight; "he placed two weights in the scale pan" (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance weight down with a load present with a bias; "He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders" |