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1. The vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
    
2. 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
    
3. The relative importance granted to something
   "his opinion carries great weight"
   - weightiness
    
4. An artifact that is heavy
    
5. An oppressive feeling of heavy force
   "bowed down by the weight of responsibility"
    
6. A system of units used to express the weight of something
   - system of weights
    
7. A unit used to measure weight
   "he placed two weights in the scale pan"
   - weight unit
    
8. (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
   - weighting

1. Weight down with a load
   - burden, burthen, weight down
    
2. Present with a bias
   - slant, angle

Sounds like: wait

Derived forms: weights, weighting, weighted

See also: heavy, light, weighty

Type of: artefact [Brit], artifact [N. Amer], bias, charge, coefficient, importance, metric, oppression, oppressiveness, physical property, predetermine, repressiveness, sports equipment, system of measurement, unit, unit of measurement

Encyclopedia: Weight