preponderance

  • 31preponderance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. prevalence, predominance, supremacy, ascendancy. See influence, superiority. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. supremacy, superiority, dominance; see advantage 2 , command 2 , power 2 . III (Roget s 3… …

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  • 32preponderance — pre·pon·der·ance || prɪ pÉ‘ndrÉ™ns n. superiority; supremacy; state of being larger in number; state of being heavier …

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  • 33preponderance — n. 1. Outweighing, preponderating. 2. Superiority of weight, influence, or power, ascendency …

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  • 34preponderance — n 1. majority, bulk, mass, lion s share, greater part, more than half; prevalence, common occurrence, extensiveness. 2. ascendancy, predomination, primacy, paramount cy, sovereignty, preeminence, superiority, transcendence, greatness, supremacy;… …

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  • 35preponderance — pre·pon·der·ance …

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  • 36preponderance — [prɪˈpɒnd(ə)rəns] noun [singular] formal most of the people or things in a group …

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  • 37preponderance — pre•pon•der•ance [[t]prɪˈpɒn dər əns[/t]] also pre•pon′der•an•cy n. the fact or quality of being preponderant …

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  • 38preponderance — /prəˈpɒndərəns/ (say pruh ponduhruhns), /pri / (say pree ), / drəns/ (say druhns) noun the quality or fact of being preponderant; superiority in weight, power, number, etc. Also, preponderancy …

  • 39preponderance of the evidence — noun A legal standard, applied in many jurisdictions for deciding the outcome of civil disputes, which requires that evidence be sufficient to determine that a claim is more likely to be true than not. Syn: balance of probabilities …

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  • 40preponderance of evidence — The weight, credit, and value of the aggregate evidence on either side; the greater weight of the evidence the greater weight of the credible evidence. In the last analysis, the probability of the truth; evidence more convincing as worthy of… …

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