preponderance (noun)

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• preponderance — preponderant ► ADJECTIVE ▪ predominant in influence, number, or importance. DERIVATIVES preponderance noun preponderantly adverb …   English terms dictionary

• preponderance — noun 1. superiority in power or influence the preponderance of good over evil the preponderance of wealth and power • Derivationally related forms: ↑preponderant, ↑preponderate • Hypernyms: ↑power, ↑powerfulness …   Useful english dictionary

• preponderance — I noun dominance, domination, majority, outweighing, paramountcy, plurality, predominance, predomination, preeminence, prepollence, prepollency, preponderancy, preponderation, prevalence, superiority associated concepts: preponderance of the… …   Law dictionary

• preponderance — noun formal a preponderance of if there is a preponderance of people or things of a particular type in a group, there are more of that type than of any others: There is a preponderance of female students in the music department …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• preponderance — noun 1) the preponderance of women among older people Syn: prevalence, predominance, dominance 2) the preponderance of the evidence Syn: bulk, majority, larger part, best/better part 3) the preponderance of the unions …   Thesaurus of popular words

• preponderance — noun a) Excess or superiority of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing. But even less disgruntled observers have insisted that pain and un pleasure are more common in dreams than pleasure: for instance, Scholz (1893, 57), Volkelt… …   Wiktionary

• preponderance — noun Date: 1681 1. a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength 2. a. a superiority or excess in number or quantity b. majority …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• preponderance of the evidence — noun A legal standard, applied in many jurisdictions for deciding the outcome of civil disputes, which requires that evidence be sufficient to determine that a claim is more likely to be true than not. Syn: balance of probabilities …   Wiktionary

• preponderance — pre|pon|der|ance [ prı pand(ə)rəns ] noun singular FORMAL most of the people or things in a group: A preponderance of the students in the program came from overseas …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• preponderance — UK [prɪˈpɒnd(ə)rəns] / US [prɪˈpɑnd(ə)rəns] noun [singular] formal most of the people or things in a group A preponderance of the students on the course came from overseas …   English dictionary

• preponderance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. prevalence, predominance, supremacy, ascendancy. See influence, superiority. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. supremacy, superiority, dominance; see advantage 2 , command 2 , power 2 . III (Roget s 3… …   English dictionary for students