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verb

Weight v. t. (past & past part. weighted; pres. part. weighting)

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. "The arrows of satire,... weighted with sense."

(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.

(Dyeing) To load (fabrics) as with barite, to increase the weight, etc.

(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.

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Etymology of 'Weighted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Weighted" Quotes from Famous Books

... after all? What did the dark shadow around her portend? Did calamity lurk on that long upland trail through the sage? Why should his heart swell and throb with nameless fear? He listened to the silence and told himself that in the broad light of day he could dispel this leaden-weighted dread. ...

— Riders of the Purple Sage • Zane Grey

... for sake of balance, to be weighted by colour on the window sides more than your heavy curtains (silk or cretonne) contribute when drawn back; in such a case decorators use coloured gauze for sash curtains in one, two or three shades ...

— The Art of Interior Decoration • Grace Wood

... thus formed was laboriously towed up-stream to the eddy where the bird's-eye logs were wired together, weighted with ...

— The Promise - A Tale of the Great Northwest • James B. Hendryx

... are down in all respects. Tremendous reductions in prices previous to winter stocking. Pure para kit with cellulose seat and shoulder-pads, weighted to balance. Unequalled ...

— Actions and Reactions • Rudyard Kipling

... Italian gesture, an expressive direction and motion of his forefinger, pointed to deepest depths—"away down, down, down." She knew of course what he meant—how it had taken his father-in-law's great fortune, and taken no small slice, to surround him with an element in which, all too fatally weighted as he had originally been, he could pecuniarily float; and with this reminder other things came to her—how strange it was that, with all allowance for their merit, it should befall some people to be so inordinately valued, quoted, as they said in the stock-market, so high, and how still stranger, ...

— The Golden Bowl • Henry James

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