Weight is a measurement of the gravitational force acting on an object. In non-scientific contexts it may refer to an object's mass (quantity of matter). Figuratively, it refers to the seriousness or depth of an idea or thought, or the danger and urgency of a situation.
Weight may also refer to:
People
- Weight (surname)
Music
- Weight, the pressure a pianist applies with force to the keyboard, to improve tone
- Weight (album), a 1994 album by Rollins Band
- "Weight" (song), a 2014 song by Latrice Royale
- "Weight", a song by Isis from the album Oceanic
- "The Weight", a 1968 song by The Band
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
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
See also
- Weight of evidence