01 n. The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.
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The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.“The mind should . . . reject or receive proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability.” — Locke.“In a few weeks he had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed.” — Macaulay.
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The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.(Gun.)