weight
Definition 1
Shipping: Gross weight (weight of cargo and its container), net weight or tare weight (weight of cargo only), or legal weight (weight established through a legally mandated method).
Definition 2
Statistics: Number assigned to a characteristic, factor, or quantity to signify its level of importance in comparison with other characteristics, factors, or quantities. In a retail price index, for example, the price of bread is assigned a higher weight (say '10') than SOAP (say '2') because of bread's greater importance to the consumers.
weight is in the Shipping, Transport, & Travel and Statistics, Mathematics, & Analysis subjects.
weight appears in the definitions of the following terms:
expected monetary value,
compound duty rate,
any quantity,
hidden price increase,
acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS),
adverse effect,
consensus-based forecast,
bag,
reasonable care in examining documents,
pro forma invoice
and
weight appears in the other terms:
legal weight,
certificate of weight,
short weight,
weighting,
minimum weight,
dollar weighted rate of return,
billed weight,
weight ton,
weighted average cost of capital,
avoirdupois weight
and
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