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Heavyweight - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Heavyweight : adj : heaviest in a category or of a heavyweight category (more
than 190 pounds for prizefighters); "a heavyweight
boxer"
(noun)
1: an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds
2: a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds
3: a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds
4: a very large person; impressive in size or qualities [syn: giant,
hulk, whale]
5: a person of exceptional importance and reputation [syn: colossus,
behemoth, giant, titan]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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".
(1994-12-22)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Heavyweight : adj. [common] High-overhead; baroque; code-intensive;
featureful, but costly. Esp. 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 utilization, 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. Oppose
`lightweight'. Usage: now borders on techspeak, especially in the
compound `heavyweight process'.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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