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Definition: Preponderance |
PreponderanceNoun1. Superiority in power or influence; "the preponderance of good over evil"; "the preponderance of wealth and power". 2. A superiority in numbers or amount; "there is a preponderance of Blacks in our prisons". 3. Exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight; "the least preponderance in either pan will unbalance the scale". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "preponderance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Synonym: PreponderanceSynonym: prevalence (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Authority | Noun: authority; influence, patronage, power, preponderance, credit, prestige, prerogative, jurisdiction; right; (title); direction; government; a. |
Influence | Noun: influence; importance; weight, pressure, preponderance, prevalence, sway; predominance, predominancy; ascendency; dominance, reign; control, domination, pull; authority; capability; (power); effect; interest. |
Superiority | Noun: superiority, majority; greatness; advantage; pull; preponderance, preponderation; vantage ground, prevalence, partiality; personal superiority; nobility; (rank); Triton among the minnows, primus inter pares, nulli secundus, captain; crackajack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Preponderance |
| English words defined with "preponderance": Preponderation, prevalence ♦ To turn the scale. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "preponderance": acid soil ♦ Decide, Dientamoeba ♦ general schemes ♦ Lymphoma, Mixed-Cell, Follicular ♦ minus stand ♦ trapezoidal hedge ♦ variable hedge, variable ratio write. (references) |
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Health | However, the preponderance of the available data indicates that, in the presence of anti-HCV testing, retention of ALT testing of blood donors has little additional value. (references) | |
Does needle exchange promote drug use? A preponderance of evidence shows either no change or decreased drug use. The scattered cases showing increased drug use should be investigated to discover the conditions under which negative effects might occur, but these can in no way detract from the importance of needle exchange programs. (references) | ||
Business | The Government of Japan has endeavored to cope with international criticism that ODA funds tend to flow back to Japan via a preponderance of awards to Japanese firms in major yen loan projects. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Bahrain | Some journalists view the lack of competition for the chairmanship of the board and the preponderance of government employees accepted as members, as signs that it will not be independent. (references) |
Economic History | Japan | During the most recent biennial price revision, undertaken in April 2000, the average price reduction for three major product categories (PTCA catheters, pacemakers and orthopedic implants), where U.S. firms have captured a preponderance of the market, was 4.5 percent. (references) |
Women | Croatia | Considerable anecdotal evidence gathered by NGO's suggested that women hold the preponderance of low-level clerical, labor, and shopkeeping positions. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. A leaf was riven from a tree, "I mean to fall to earth," said he. The west wind, rising, made him veer. "Eastward," said he, "I now shall steer." The east wind rose with greater force. Said he: "'Twere wise to change my course." With equal power they contend. He said: "My judgment I suspend." Down died the winds; the leaf, elate, Cried: "I've decided to fall straight." "First thoughts are best?" That's not the moral; Just choose your own and we'll not quarrel. Howe'er your choice may chance to fall, You'll have no hand in it at all. G.J. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Preponderance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Preponderance" is used about 151 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 151 | 25,596 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
preponderance of the evidence | 13 |
preponderance | 10 |
definition preponderance | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "preponderance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shumicë (host, lot, majority, mass, masses, orgy, plurality, quantity, superabundance, the million, thousand, weight), mbizotërim (ascendant, dominance, domination, prevalence), epërsi (advantage, ascendancy, ascendency, distinction, edge, excellence, excellency, pre eminence, predominance, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, vantage, weight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تفوق (beat, beat all, break, class, distinction, eclipse, exceed, excel, excellence, get the better of, go one better, lick, mastery, outclass, outguess, overpass, overrule, pre eminence, precede, predomination, preponderate, prevalence, seniority, superiority, supremacy, surpass, top, tower, transcend, transcendence), أكثرية (plurality), رجحان (overbalance, superiority). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | превъзходство (ascendant, cachet, excellence, excellency, odds, predominance, preeminence, prepotency, primacy, superiority, supremacy, transcendence), превес (balance, overbalance, overweight), преобладаване (overweight, predominance, prevalence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 优势 (Dominance, Predominance, superiority). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | převaha (ascendancy, balance, dominance, overbalance, overweight, predominance, superiority). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | nystagmusberedskab (directional preponderance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | enemmyys (greater amount). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | prépondérance (prponderance), supériorité numérique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | übergewicht (overload, overweight, predominance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπεροχή (ascendancy, dominance, eminence, excellence, forte, odds, overbalance, pre eminence, predominance, predominancy, predomination, preeminence, prevailingness, primacy, superbness, superiority, supremacy, supremeness, transcendence, transcendency, virtue), υπερίσχυση, επικράτηση (dominance, predominance, predominancy, predomination, prevalence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | יתרון (advantage, gain, odds, plus, profit, superiority), עליו ות (advantage, dominance, meliority, predominance, preeminence, primacy, superiority, supremacy), כמות יתר. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | túlsúly (excess, excess weight, odds, overfreight, overweight, predominance, predomination, prevalence), nagyobb befolyás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | prevalenza (predominance, prevalence, priority), preponderanza. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 偏重 (making too much of, overestimation), 優勢 (predominance, superior power, superiority). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ゆうせい (dominance, eugenic, living a quiet life in seclusion away from the masses, male characteristics, manliness, planet, postal system, predominance, sexual, superior power, superiority, vocal, voiced, wandering star, worrying about world conditions), へ"じゅう (making too much of, overestimation), へ"ちょう (abnormality, anomaly, change of tone, irregularity, making too much of, modulation, overestimation, variation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tromlaght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eponderancepray preponderância (overbalance, overweight, predominance, pre-eminence, prevalence), predomínio (dominance, predominance, pre-eminence, prevalence, reign, squirearchy, supremacy). (various references) preponderenţã (predominance, prepotency), precumpãnire. (various references) превосходство (better hand, dominance, excellency, pre eminence, predominance, preeminence, superiority, superlativeness, supremacy, supremeness, transcendence, transcendency). (various references) nadmoć (ascendancy, domination, mastery, superiority). (various references) preponderancia, predominio (predominance, predominancy, predomination, prepotency, prevalence, reign). (various references) slagsida (have a list, list), övervägande del. (various references) sayıca fazlalık, baskınlık (prepotency), ağır basma (overweight, predominance), üstünlük (advantage, altitude, ascendancy, ascendency, beat, championship, class, distinction, dominance, edge, eligibility, excellence, head start, hegemony, lordship, mastery, odds, overweight, pre eminence, precedence, predominance, primacy, spirit, supereminence, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, whip hand), çoğunluk (bulk, generality, majority, plurality, predominance, ruck, run, the crowd). (various references) верхність, перевага (advantage, allowance, ascendant, asset, benefit, boon, bulge, capital, convenience, easement, excellence, excellency, odds, overbalance, overweight, precedence, precedency, preference, prepotence, prepotency, privilege, pull, purchase, start, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, vantage). (various references) thế trội hơn (dominance), thế nặng hơn thế hơn, ưu thế (ascendant, ascendent, bulge, predominance, supremacy, vantage-ground, vantage-point). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "preponderance": preponderances. (additional references) | |
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"Preponderance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perponderance, perponderence, prebonderance, preonderance, prepanderance, prepnderance, preponderence, proponderance. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "preponderance" (pronounced prēpÄ"ndruns) |
| 6 | -n d r u n s | hindrance. |
| 4 | -r u n s | abhorrence, adherence, appearance, assurance, circumference, Clarence, clearance, coherence, disappearance, entrance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, incoherence, insurance, interference, noninterference, perseverance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, reinsurance, remembrance, teleconference, videoconference. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, clairvoyance, coexistence, cognizance, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, intelligence, interdependence, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, relevance, reliance, reluctance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-n-n-o-p-p-r-r" | |
-3 letters: ropedancer. | |
-4 letters: noncareer, nonreader, repapered. | |
-5 letters: careened, careener, careered, coppered, cornered, dapperer, endocarp, endpaper, neoprene, ordnance, panderer, parcener, pardoner, penanced, ponderer, prepared, rancored, recapped, reearned, reopened. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-n-n-o-p-p-r-r" | |
+1 letter: preponderances. | |
+2 letters: preponderancies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 70 6F 6E 64 65 72 61 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . .--. --- -. -.. . .-. .- -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01110000 01101111 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e p o n d e r a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 0070 006F 006E 0064 0065 0072 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50847182818070718467806971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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