pre·pon·der·an·cy /-d(ə)rən(t)si/



 Pre·pon·der·ance Pre·pon·der·an·cy n.
 1. The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.
    The mind should . . . reject or receive proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability.   --Locke.
    In a few weeks he had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed.   --Macaulay.
 2. Gun. The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.

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