preponderance

preponderance englannista suomeksi

1. enemmistö, enemmyys

2. ylivoima

0. Substantiivi

1. enemmistö, enemmyys, ylivoima

preponderance englanniksi

1. Greater physical weight.

(synonyms)

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

3. Superiority in amount or number; the bulk or majority; also, a large amount or number; an abundance, a profusion.

4. (quote-book)|location=Göttingen|publisher=Printed at the University Press by W. Fr. Kaestner|year=1857|section=II|page=36|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ZJe2lZjZ8dEC/page/n38/mode/1up|oclc=1013331293|passage=Strong proofs are at hand to shew, that in the Irish people there is a large admixture, if not an overwhelming praeponderance, of Iberian elements.

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6. Superiority of influence, power, a quality, etc.; an outweighing, predominance, pre-eminence.

7. (RQ:Macaulay History of England)&93; had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed.

8. (quote-book) (First Part)|series=The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud|volume=IV|location=London|publisher=The (w) and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis|year=1953|year_published=1971|page=134|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/standardedition00freugoog/page/n172/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-7012-0067-1|passage=But even less disgruntled observers have insisted that pain and unpleasure 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.