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Weight

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Noun

weight (plural: weights)

  1. the force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth.
  2. an object used to make something heavier.
  3. a variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
Compare to mass.

Translations

  • Chinese: (zhong), 重量 (zhongliang), 砝码 (fama)
  • Dutch: gewicht (1,2)
    paino
    poids (1,2)
    Gewicht
  • Hungarian: tömeg
  • Indonesian: berat
  • Italian: peso m
    重さ (おもさ , omosa), 重量 (じゅうりょう , jūryō), 体重 (たいじゅう , taijū)→(person,animal)
  • Romanian: greutate f
    peso
    vikt (1,2)

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