WEIGHTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weighted mean? 

• WEIGHTED (adjective)
  The adjective WEIGHTED has 2 senses:

1. made heavy or weighted down with weariness

2. adjusted to reflect value or proportion

  Familiarity information: WEIGHTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEIGHTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made heavy or weighted down with weariness

Synonyms:

leaden; weighted

Context example:

weighted eyelids

Similar:

heavy (marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Adjusted to reflect value or proportion

Context example:

a weighted average

Similar:

adjusted (altered to accommodate to certain requirements or bring into a proper relation)

 Context examples 

The weighted concentration of ions in solutions.

(Ionic Strength, NCI Thesaurus)

I must have gone fast, and yet it seemed to me as if my feet were weighted with lead, and as though every joint in my body were rusty.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Jama estimates the weighted total includes more than 76,000 patients across the US affected by cell phone-related injuries.

(Mobile phone could cause physical pain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A small bore flexible feeding tube with a weighted metal tip that is ideally placed in the second or third part of the duodenum.

(Nasoduodenal Tube, NCI Thesaurus)

When exposed to a strong external magnetic field, ferumoxides exhibits enhanced T2 relaxation, resulting in signal loss in normal tissues (image darkening) on mid T1/T2 or strongly T2-weighted images.

(Ferumoxides Injectable Solution, NCI Thesaurus)

A scalar argument to a kernel function that determines what range of the nearby data points will be heavily weighted in making an estimate.

(Kernel Bandwidth, NCI Thesaurus)

Then I seized my coat, which was weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from the leather bag in which I carried my takings.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was appalled at the problem confronting him, weighted down by the incubus of his working-class station.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

An enhancing lesion is a well-demarcated area of unequivocally increased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo (SE) images compared with normal-appearing, surrounding tissue following intravenous injection of a gadolinium chelate.

(Enhancing Lesion, NCI Thesaurus)

His wet clothing showed that he had been out in the storm of the night before, and his stick, which was a Penang-lawyer weighted with lead, was just such a weapon as might, by repeated blows, have inflicted the terrible injuries to which the trainer had succumbed.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)