Category:Weight

This category contains results about Weight.
Definitions specific to this category can be found in Definitions/Weight.

• Physics:
  • The weight of a body is the force exerted on it by a gravitational field.

• Network theory:
  • The weight of an edge or arc of a network is the functional value assigned to that edge or arc by the weight function of that network.

• Statistics, etc.:
  • A weight function on a set $S$ is a mapping from $S$ to the (usually positive) real numbers.

• Information theory:
  • The weight of a codeword is the number of its non-zero terms.