Preponderance

Pre`pon´der`ance

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.

Noun	1.	preponderance - superiority in power or influence; "the preponderance of good over evil"; "the preponderance of wealth and power"
	2.	preponderance - a superiority in numbers or amount; "there is a preponderance of Blacks in our prisons" Synonyms: prevalence
	3.	preponderance - exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight; "the least preponderance in either pan will unbalance the scale"