Weight (disambiguation)

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Weight is a measurement of the gravitational force acting on an object. In non-scientific contexts it may refer to an object's mass (quantity of matter). Figuratively, it refers to the seriousness or depth of an idea or thought, or the danger and urgency of a situation.

Weight may also refer to:

Science and technology

• Specific weight, the weight per unit volume of a material
• A measure of paper density
• Line weight in contour line construction in cartography
• Font weight
• Body weight The weight of a person
• A connection strength, or coefficient in a linear combination, as in an artificial neural network
• Weight, a former English unit

Mathematics

• Weighting, making some data contribute to a result more than others
  • Weighted mean
  • Weight function
  • Weighting filter
• Weight (representation theory), a type of function
• Weight of a topological space; see base
• Weighted mean and weighted average, the importance can vary on each piece of data
• Weight (strings), the number of times a letter occurs in a string

Sports

• Weight class, a competition division used to match competitors against others of their own size
• Objects of known mass used in weight training
• The object thrown in a weight throw
• Draw weight of a bow

Biology and physiology

• Body weight, a commonly used term for the mass of an organism's body

Music, film, and television

• The pressure a pianist applies with force to the keyboard, to improve tone
• Weight (album), a 1994 album by Rollins Band
• Weight (song), a 2014 song by Latrice Royale
• "Weight", a song by Isis from the album Oceanic
• The Weight, a 1968 song by The Band

People with the surname Weight

• Weight (surname)

See also

• Weight of evidence