vote ballot voting balloting | a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative, there were only votes in favor of the motion, they allowed just one vote per person |
multiple voting | the act of voting in more than one place by the same person at the same election (illegal in U.S.) |
weight gaining | bodybuilding that increases muscle mass and body weight |
negative chemotaxis | movement away from a chemical stimulus |
control circuit negative feedback circuit | a feedback circuit that subtracts from the input |
negative | a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed |
negative magnetic pole negative pole south-seeking pole | the pole of a magnet that points toward the south when the magnet is suspended freely |
negative pole | the terminal of a battery that is connected to the negative plate |
sash weight | a counterweight for a sliding sash |
voting booth | a booth in which a person can cast a private vote |
voting machine | a mechanical device for recording and counting votes mechanically |
weight | an artifact that is heavy |
weight free weight exercising weight | sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting, it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms |
atomic mass atomic weight relative atomic mass | (chemistry) the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units |
molecular weight relative molecular mass | (chemistry) the sum of the relative atomic masses of the constituent atoms of a molecule |
equivalent equivalent weight combining weight eq | the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element, the standard is for oxygen |
weight | the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity |
body weight | the weight of a person's body |
reporting weight | a person's body weight (as an athlete's) at the beginning of the season (when first reporting for practice) |
dead weight | a heavy motionless weight |
throw-weight | the weight of the payload of a missile (not including the weight of the rocket) |
weight weightiness | the relative importance granted to something, his opinion carries great weight, the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed |
voting right | the right to vote, especially the right of a common shareholder to vote in person or by proxy on the affairs of a company |
Rh-negative blood type Rh-negative blood Rh negative | the blood group whose red cells lack the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
turnoff negative stimulation | something causing antagonism or loss of interest |
negative reinforcing stimulus negative reinforcer | a reinforcing stimulus whose removal serves to decrease the likelihood of the response that produced it |
negative stimulus | a stimulus with undesirable consequences |
dead weight | an oppressive encumbrance |
voting system electoral system | a legal system for making democratic choices |
uninominal system uninominal voting system single-member system scrutin uninomial system scrutin uninominal voting system | based on the principle of having only one member (as of a legislature) selected from each electoral district |
negative correlation indirect correlation | a correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with small values of the other, the correlation coefficient is between and - |
negative identification | evidence proving that you are not who you say you are not, evidence establishing that you are not among a group of people already known to the system, recognition by the system leads to rejection, a system for negative identification can prevent the use of multiple identities by a single person |
negative | a reply of denial, he answered in the negative |
double negative | a grammatically substandard but emphatic negative, I don't never go |
double negative | an affirmative constructed from two negatives, A not unwelcome outcome |
weight | an oppressive feeling of heavy force, bowed down by the weight of responsibility |
voting precinct election district | one of several districts into which a city or town is divided for voting, each contains one polling place |
muon negative muon mu-meson | an elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of microsecond, decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino |
gainer weight gainer | a person who gains weight |
low-birth-weight baby low-birth-weight infant | an infant born weighing less than . pounds ( grams) regardless of gestational age, a low-birth-weight infant is at risk for developing lack of oxygen during labor |
negative charge | having a surplus of electrons, having a lower electric potential |
voting trust | an agreement whereby persons owning stock with voting powers retain ownership while transferring the voting rights to the trustees |
voting stock | shares in a corporation that entitle the shareholder to voting and proxy rights |
negative feedback | feedback in opposite phase with (decreasing) the input |
weight weighting | (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance |
weight unit weight | a unit used to measure weight, he placed two weights in the scale pan |
system of weights weight | a system of units used to express the weight of something |
avoirdupois avoirdupois weight | a system of weights based on the -ounce pound (or , grains) |
troy troy weight | a system of weights used for precious metals and gemstones, based on a -ounce pound and an ounce ofgrains |
apothecaries' unit apothecaries' weight | any weight unit used in pharmacy, an ounce is equal tograins and a pound is equal to ounces |