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Weight is a measurement of the gravitational force acting on an object.

Weight or The Weight may also refer to:

Mathematics

• Weight (graph theory) a number associated to an edge or to a vertex of a graph
• Weight (representation theory), a type of function
• Weight (strings), the number of times a letter occurs in a string
• Weight, an integer associated to each variable of a quasi-homogeneous polynomial
• Weight of a topological space; see base
• Weighting, making some data contribute to a result more than others
  • Weight function
  • Weighted mean and weighted average, the importance can vary on each piece of data
  • Weighting filter

Science and technology

• Weight (unit), a former English unit
• Weight, a connection strength, or coefficient in a linear combination, as in an artificial neural network
• Weight, a measure of paper density
• Body weight, a commonly used term for the mass of an organism's body
• Font weight
• Line weight in contour line construction in cartography
• Specific weight, the weight per unit volume of a material
• In underwater diving, a dense object used for ballast in a diving weighting system
• Balance weights, part of a weighing scale
• Weight (object), object whose chief task is to exert weight

Film and television

• The Weight (film), a 2012 South Korean film
• "Weight" (Justified), a 2014 television episode
• "The Weight" (The Sopranos), a 2002 television episode

Music

• Weight (album), by Rollins Band, 1994
• Weight (EP), by the Kindred, 2017
• "Weight" (song), by Latrice Royale, 2014
• "The Weight", a song by The Band, 1968
• "Weight", a song by Alexz Johnson, 2020
• "Weight", a song by Brockhampton from Iridescence, 2018
• "Weight", a song by Isis from Oceanic, 2002

Sports

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

Other uses

• Weight (surname)
• Weight (wine) or "body", a quality of wine

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