weighted

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
weighted
    adj 1: made heavy or weighted down with weariness; "his leaden
           arms"; "weighted eyelids" [syn: {leaden}, {weighted}]
    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"
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Weight \Weight\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Weighted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Weighting}.]
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   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.
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            The arrows of satire, . . . weighted with sense.
                                                  --Coleridge.
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   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}.
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   3. (Dyeing) To load (fabrics) as with barite, to increase the
      weight, etc.
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   4. (Math.) to assign a numerical value expressing relative
      importance to (a measurement), to be multiplied by the
      value of the measurement in determining averages or other
      aggregate quantities; as, they weighted part one of the
      test twice as heavily as part 2.
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