Definition of Weights. Meaning of Weights. Synonyms of Weights

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Definition of Weights

Weight
Weight Weight, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Weighting.] 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. The arrows of satire, . . . weighted with sense. --Coleridge. 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.
Weight
Weight Weight, v. t. (Dyeing) To load (fabrics) as with barite, to increase the weight, etc.

Meaning of Weights from wikipedia

- weight, the weight per unit volume of a material In underwater diving, a dense object used for ballast in a diving weighting system Balance weights, part of...
- referred to, non-technically, as "weights". Since any variations in gravity will act equally on the unknown and the known weights, a lever-balance will indicate...
- standardized between different sanctioning bodies, although the cutoff weights are. These weights are specified in pounds, reflecting the historic dominance of...
- "The Weight" is a song by the Canadian-American group the Band that was released as a single in 1968 and on the group's debut album Music from Big Pink...
- 2012. "Truck Weights and Highways" (PDF). South Dakota Department of Transport. Retrieved 25 April 2012. "Guidelines on Maximum Weights…Criteria (EU)"...
- Weight classes are divisions of competition used to match competitors against others of their own size. Weight classes are used in a variety of sports...
- to ensure the weights are not dropped accidentally, and heavily weighted divers may arrange their weights so subsets of the total weight can be dropped...
- Club. Rous experimented with weights until he arrived at a relationship between age and maturity, expressed in terms of weight. His original scale has undergone...
- units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 and continued to be developed through a series of Weights and Measures Acts and amendments...
- Troy weights were first used in England in the 15th century and were made official for gold and silver in 1527. The British Imperial system of weights and...