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語源

From Latin praeponderatus, past participle of praeponderāre (“to outweigh”).

動詞

preponderate (三人称単数 現在形 preponderates, 現在分詞 preponderating, 過去形および過去分詞形 preponderated)

1. (transitive) To outweigh; to be heavier than; to exceed in weight.

   Synonym: overbalance

   • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica

     an inconsiderable weight by virtue of its distance from the Centre of the Ballance, will preponderate much greater magnitudes

2. (transitive) To overpower by stronger or moral power.
   • 1898, William Graham Sumner, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain”, in War and Other Essays, Yale, page 359:

     That is the preponderating consideration to which everything else has to yield.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.
   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, and the Profane State:

     The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates him for peace.

4. (intransitive) To exceed in weight or influence; hence, to predominate.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 22:

     Anxiety preponderated over hope; and it was scarcely possible for Evelyn to encounter a danger not previously conjured up by the alarmed fancy of his mistress.

   • 1861, John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism‎^[1]:

     […] if the principle of utility is good for anything, it must be good for weighing these conflicting utilities against one another, and marking out the region within which one or the other preponderates.

   • 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 161:

     Train journeys were not long in terms of distance, and having regard to these factors, the tank engine inevitably preponderated.