Noun

Excess or superiority of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.

* Macaulay

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.

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* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 168:

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 (1875, 80), and others. Indeed two ladies, Florence Hallam and Sarah Weed (1896, 499), have actually given statistical expression, based on a study of their own dreams, to the preponderance of unpleasure in dreaming.

(obsolete) The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.

The greater portion of the weight.

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The majority.

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Noun

(uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.

(countable) The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.

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(countable) The result of building up; buildup, accretion.

(uncountable) The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.