The mind should . . . reject or receive
proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater
grounds of probability. --Locke.
In a few weeks he had changed the relative position
of all the states in Europe, and had restored the
equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had
destroyed. --Macaulay.
2. (Gun.) The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind
the trunnions over that in front of them.