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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
weight \weight\, v. t. imp. p. p. weighted; p. pr. vb. n.
weighting.
1913 webster
1. to load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make
heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a
jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.
1913 webster
the arrows of satire, . . . weighted with sense.
--coleridge.
1913 webster
2. astron. physics to assign a weight to; to express by a
number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. see
weight of observations, under weight.
1913 webster
3. dyeing to load fabrics as with barite, to increase the
weight, etc.
webster 1913 suppl.
4. math. to assign a numerical value expressing relative
importance to a measurement, to be multiplied by the
value of the measurement in determining averages or other
aggregate quantities; as, they weighted part one of the
test twice as heavily as part 2.
pjc
1913 webster
see also:
weighted weighting weight of observations weight
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
weighted
adj 1: made heavy or weighted down with weariness; "his leaden
arms"; "weighted eyelids" syn: leaden
2: adjusted to reflect value or proportion; "votes weighted
according to the size of constituencies"; "a law weighted
in favor of landlords"; "a weighted average"
see also:
leaden
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