Definition of Prepanderance
{ Pre*pon"der*ance (?), Pre*pon"der*an*cy (?), }
n. [Cf. F. prépondérance.]
1. 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.
2. (Gun.) The excess of weight of that
part of a canon behind the trunnions over that in front of
them.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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