weighted

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈweɪ.tɪd/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈweɪ.tɪd/, [ˈweɪ.ɾɪd]
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈwæɪ.tɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪtɪd
• Homophone: waited

Verb

weighted

1. simple past and past participle of weight

Adjective

weighted (comparative more weighted, superlative most weighted)

1. Having weights on it.

   She wore a weighted dress so it wouldn't blow in the wind.

   Gym Bob is wearing a weighted jacket to do pull-ups.

2. Biased, so as to favour one party.

   The competition was weighted so he'd be the clear favourite to win.

3. (graph theory, of a graph) having values assigned to its edges
4. (statistics) With the components of an average multiplied by particular factors so as to take account of their relative importance.
5. Containing a large proportion (of something).
   • 2012 May 31, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Snow White And The Huntsman”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1]:

     Huntsman starts out with a vision of Theron that’s specific, unique, and weighted in character, but it trends throughout toward generic fantasy tropes and black-and-white morality, and climaxes in a thoroughly familiar face-off.

Derived terms

• nonweighted
• timeweighted
• time-weighted
• unweighted
• weighted alphabet
• weighted average
• weighted-average cost of capital
• weighted graph
• weightedly
• weighted mean
• weightedness
• weighted vest

Translations

having weights on it

• Bulgarian: утежнен (bg) (utežnen)
• Galician: pesado (gl)
• Polish: obciążony m
• Spanish: grávido, con pesas, con peso, con pesantez, con pesadura, con pesor

biased, so as to favour one party

• Bulgarian: нагласен (bg) (naglasen)

in graph theory

• Bulgarian: с тегла (s tegla)

in statistics

• Bulgarian: претеглен (bg) (preteglen)
• Czech: vážený (cs)
• Hungarian: súlyozott (hu)
• Polish: ważony m
• Spanish: ponderado (es)

containing a large proportion (of something)

• Bulgarian: изпълнен (bg) (izpălnen)
• Spanish: pesado (es), ponderado (es)

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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} alourdi (fr)

Anagrams

• deweight