A quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure reflects the underlying construct, that is, whether it measures what it purports to measure (see reliability).
The genuinity - as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity - of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled.
The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
State of having legal force.
A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
viscosity rating.
An object used to make something heavier.
Pressure; burden.
Importance or influence.
An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).
The smallest cardinality of a base.
Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
Synonym of mass (in general circumstances)
The thickness and opacity of paint.
Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
Weight class
Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances)
A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
The illusion of mass.
To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
To load, burden or oppress someone.
To bias something; to slant.
To assign weights to individual statistics.
To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
To add weight to something; to make something heavier.