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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈweɪ.tɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈweɪ.tɪd/, [ˈweɪ.ɾɪd]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈwæɪ.tɪd/
- Rhymes: -eɪtɪd
- Homophone: waited
Verb
[edit]weighted
- simple past and past participle of weight
Adjective
[edit]weighted (comparative more weighted, superlative most weighted)
- Having weights on it.
- She wore a weighted dress so it wouldn't blow in the wind.
- Biased, so as to favour one party.
- The competition was weighted so he'd be the clear favourite to win.
- (graph theory, of a graph) having values assigned to its edges
- (statistics) 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).
- 2012 May 31, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Snow White And The Huntsman”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1]:
- Huntsman starts out with a vision of Theron that’s specific, unique, and weighted in character, but it trends throughout toward generic fantasy tropes and black-and-white morality, and climaxes in a thoroughly familiar face-off.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]biased, so as to favour one party
in graph theory
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