Weight (disambiguation)
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Weight is a measurement of the gravitational force acting on an object, or of an object's mass.
Weight may also refer to:
- Weight (representation theory), a type of function.
- Weight (strings), the number of times a letter occurs in a string.
- Weights, objects of known mass used in weightlifting.
- Weight class, a competition division used to match competitors against others of their own size.
- Weight function, the importance placed on a piece of data.
- Weight of a topological space.
- Weight (album), an album by Rollins Band.
- The Weight, a 1968 song by The Band.
Weight may also be:
- The object thrown in a weight throw
- A measure of paper density
- The seriousness or depth of an idea or thought, or danger and urgency of a situation.
- The pressure a pianist applies with force to the keyboard, to improve tone.
- Draw weight of a bow
- Line weight in contour line construction in cartography
- The Weight (TV series), a Canadian television drama series due to air in 2008.
[edit] People with the surname Weight
- Carel Weight, a British artist.
- Doug Weight, an American ice hockey player.
- Greg Weight, an Australian photographer.