Usually means: Mass influenced by gravitational force.
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General (33 matching dictionaries)
  1. weight: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. weight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. weight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. weight: Collins English Dictionary
  5. weight: Vocabulary.com
  6. Weight, weight: Wordnik
  7. weight: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Weight, weight: Wiktionary
  9. weight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. weight: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. weight: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Weight, weight: Dictionary.com
  13. weight: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. weight: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Weight (The Sopranos), The Weight (film), The Weight, Weight (album), Weight (disambiguation), Weight (mathematics), Weight (representation theory), Weight (song), Weight (strings), Weight (unit), Weight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Weight: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. weight: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. weight: Rhymezone
  19. weight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. weight: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Weight: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. weight: Free Dictionary
  23. weight: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Weight, weight: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. weight: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. weight: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. weight: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  5. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Weight: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. Weight: Corporate Apparel Glossary
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. weight: Legal dictionary
  7. Weight: Financial dictionary
  8. Weight: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. weight: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  3. Weight: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. weight: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. weight: Idioms

Science (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Misunderstood Physics Terms (No longer online)
  2. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  3. weight: Archaeology Wordsmith
  4. Weight: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  5. Weight: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  6. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)
  7. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  8. weight, weight, weight, weight (Lie algebras), weight (strings): PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  9. Weight: Physic and Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. weight: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Horse Racing Terminology (No longer online)
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. Weight: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The force an object exerts on the object it is on due to gravitation.
noun:  An object used to make something heavier.
noun:  A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
noun:  (figurative) Importance or influence.
noun:  (weightlifting) An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
noun:  (lubricants) Viscosity rating.
noun:  (physics) Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances)
noun:  (physics, proscribed) Synonym of mass (in general circumstances)
noun:  (measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
noun:  (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
noun:  (topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
noun:  (typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
noun:  (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
noun:  (visual art) The illusion of mass.
noun:  (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
noun:  (figurative) Pressure; burden.
noun:  The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
noun:  (slang, uncountable) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
noun:  (slang, countable) One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
noun:  (criminal slang, dated) Money.
noun:  Weight class
noun:  (especially in computing) Emphasis applied to a given criterion.
verb:  (transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
verb:  (transitive, dyeing) To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
verb:  (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
verb:  (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
verb:  (transitive) To bias something; to slant.
verb:  (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
verb:  (transitive, sports) To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
noun:  A surname.

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