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

1. Add a heavy load; increase the weight of a load
   - burden, burthen, weight down
    
2. Present with a bias
   - slant, angle
    
3. (mathematics) assign weights to individual terms or statistics

Sounds like: waists, wastes

Derived forms: weighted, weighting, weights

See also: heavy, light

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

Encyclopedia: Weight, Weight, Don't Judge Me