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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
weighted
adj
  1. made heavy or weighted down with weariness; "his leaden arms"; "weighted eyelids"
    Synonym(s): leaden, weighted
  2. adjusted to reflect value or proportion; "votes weighted according to the size of constituencies"; "a law weighted in favor of landlords"; "a weighted average"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Weight \Weight\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Weighted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Weighting}.]
      1. To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make
            heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a
            jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.
  
                     The arrows of satire, . . . weighted with sense.
                                                                              --Coleridge.
  
      2. (Astron. & Physics) To assign a weight to; to express by a
            number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See
            {Weight of observations}, under {Weight}.
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