preponderance

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Superiority in amount or number; the bulk or majority; also, a large amount or number; an abundance, a profusion.

   “[S]trong proofs are at hand to shew, that in the Irish people there is a large admixture, if not an overwhelming praeponderance, of Iberian elements.”

2. isim Superiority of influence, power, a quality, etc.; an outweighing, predominance, pre-eminence.

   “In a few weeks he [William III of England] had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed.”

3. isim Greater physical weight.
4. isim The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.