Hypertext Webster Gateway: "weighted"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

weighted
adj 1: made heavy or weighted down with weariness; "his leaden
arms"; "weighted eyelids" [syn: {leaden}]
2: adjusted to reflect value or proportion; "votes weighted
according to the size of constituencies"; "a law weighted
in favor of landlords";"a weighted average"


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