Psi vs Weight - What's the difference?
psi | weight |
(countable) The twenty-third letter of Classical]] and Modern Greek and the twenty-fifth letter of [[Old Greek, Old and Ancient Greek.
(uncountable, parapsychology) A form of psychic energy.
* 1993 , Will Self, My Idea of Fun :
Pounds per square inch (an imperial unit of pressure)
The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).
An object used to make something heavier.
A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
Importance or influence.
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* 1945 Mikia Pezas, The price of liberty, I. Washburn, Inc., p11
(weightlifting) A disc of iron, dumbbell, or barbell used for training the muscles.
* He's working out with weights .
(physics) Mass (net weight, atomic weight, molecular weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
(statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
(topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
(typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
(visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
(visual art) The illusion of mass.
(visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
pressure; burden
* Shakespeare
* Milton
The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
To add weight to something, in order to make it heavier.
To load, burden or oppress someone.
(mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
To bias something; to slant.
(horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
As nouns the difference between psi and weight
is that psi is psi (greek letter) while weight is the force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).As an adjective psi
is dog (when used attributively).As a verb weight is
to add weight to something, in order to make it heavier.psi
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , the name for the twenty-third letter of the alphabet (?, ?).Noun
- ‘Come, lad,’ he said. ‘We will take tea together and speak of the noumenon, the psi and other more heterogenous phenomena.’
See also
* (Greek letter) Previous: chi, Next: omegaEtymology 2
InitialismAlternative forms
* * PSIInitialism
(Initialism) (head)Anagrams
* ----weight
English
Noun
(wikipedia weight) (en noun)citation, passage=I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.}}
- Another knight came to settle on the island, a man of much weight and position, on whom the Adelantados of all the island relied, and who was made a magistrate.
- "You surely are a man of some weight around here," I said.
- the weight of care or business
- The weight of this sad time.
- For the public all this weight he bears.