Associations to the word «Preponderance»
Noun
- Evidence
- Firepower
- Burden
- Truman
- Proof
- Plaintiff
- Defendant
- Juror
- Americana
- Pax
- Clear
- Sentencing
- Misconduct
- Breech
- Burgess
- Standard
- Favor
- Doubt
- Greatness
- Testimony
- Negroes
- Confederate
- Sanction
- Certainty
- Prevalence
- Aristocracy
- Gaul
- Cold
- Retention
- Element
- Prosecution
- Neglect
- Opinion
- Ratio
- Disposition
- Violation
- Rival
- Utility
- Probability
- Consequence
- Power
- Citizenship
- Tendency
- Placement
- Objection
- Weight
- Moral
Adjective
Verb
Adverb
Wiktionary
PREPONDERANCE, noun. Excess or superiority of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.
PREPONDERANCE, noun. (obsolete) The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.
PREPONDERANCE, noun. The greater portion of the weight.
PREPONDERANCE, noun. The majority.
PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE, noun. (legal) Alternative spelling of preponderance of the evidence
PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE, noun. (legal) 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.
Dictionary definition
PREPONDERANCE, noun. Superiority in power or influence; "the preponderance of good over evil"; "the preponderance of wealth and power".
PREPONDERANCE, noun. A superiority in numbers or amount; "a preponderance of evidence against the defendant".
PREPONDERANCE, noun. Exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight; "the least preponderance in either pan will unbalance the scale".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.