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What is the scientific meaning of weight?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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Weight is actually force in a fixed setting. In the context of a relatively large and uniform gravitational field (such as being on the surface of the planet), weight is the force along the line between the center of the gravitational field and the center of the object.

That is, the weight of an object in such a gravitational field is the strength of that field multiplied by the mass of the object.

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