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Deadweight or dead weight may refer to:

Music

  • Deadweight (band), a San Francisco alternative hard rock trio
  • Deadweight (album), an album by Wage War
  • "Deadweight" (song), a 1997 song by Beck from the film A Life Less Ordinary
  • "Deadweight", a song by Roam from Backbone
  • "Deadweight", a song by Parkway Drive from Deep Blue

Television

  • "Dead Weight" (The Walking Dead), an episode of the television series The Walking Dead
  • "Dead Weight" (1971), season 1, episode 3 of the TV series Columbo

Other uses

  • Deadweight loss, a loss of economic efficiency that can occur when equilibrium for a good or service is not Pareto optimal
  • Deadweight tonnage, a ship's carrying capacity, which includes cargo, fuel, crew, etc.
  • Dead weight or dressed weight, the weight of an animal carcass after removal of skin, head, feet, visceral organs, etc.

See also

  • Structural load, one type of this is dead load, the fixed weight of a structure, such as a bridge on its supports
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