weighted
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Definitions ofweighted
- To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
- To load, burden or oppress someone.
- To assign weights to individual statistics.
- To bias something; to slant.
- To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
- To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
- Having weights on it.
Example: "She wore a weighted dress so it wouldn't blow in the wind."
- Biased, so as to favour one party.
Example: "The competition was weighted so he'd be the clear favourite to win."
- (of a graph) having values assigned to its edges
- With the components of an average multiplied by particular factors so as to take account of their relative importance.
- Containing a large proportion (of something).
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