weight

Meanings

• 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

Synonyms

angle, burden, burthen, exercising weight, free weight, slant, system of weights, weight down, weight unit, weightiness, weighting