| adj. | 1. | heaviest in a category; |
| n. | 1. | a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds. |
| 2. | a boxer who weighs more than 195 pounds. | |
| 3. | a very large person. | |
| 4. | a person of exceptional importance and reputation. |
| Noun | 1. | heavyweight - an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds |
| 2. | heavyweight - a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds | |
| 3. | heavyweight - a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds | |
| 4. | heavyweight - a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | |
| 5. | heavyweight - a person of exceptional importance and reputation | |
| Adj. | 1. | heavyweight - heaviest in a category or of a heavyweight category (more than 190 pounds for prizefighters); "a heavyweight boxer" |
| heavyweight - High-overhead; baroque; code-intensive; featureful, but
costly. Especially used of communication protocols, language
designs, and any sort of implementation in which maximum
generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at
the expense of mundane considerations such as speed, memory
use and startup time. Emacs is a heavyweight editor; X is
an *extremely* heavyweight window system. This term isn't
pejorative, but one hacker's heavyweight is another's
elephantine and a third's monstrosity. Opposite: "lightweight". Usage: now borders on technical especially in the compound "heavyweight process". |
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