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Weidong Wang
Weidong Wang is an American biochemist and molecular biologist who leads a chromatin section at NIH's National Institute on Aging in Baltimore and won the 1999 PECASE award.
Weierstrass function
The Weierstrass function, defined by a convergent trigonometric series, is continuous at every point yet differentiable at none; Karl Weierstrass presented it in 1872, and its graph is an early fractal.
Weifang
Weifang (潍坊) is a prefecture-level city in central Shandong, China, the World Kite Capital. It had 9.27 million residents and 858.7 billion yuan GDP in 2025, with five 100-billion-yuan industrial clusters and National Historical and Cultural City status granted in 2026.
Weifang–Qingzhou Oil Pipeline
The Weifang–Qingzhou Oil Pipeline (潍坊滨海-青州输油管道) is an operating crude oil and refined product pipeline in Weifang, Shandong, China, running from the Binhai coastal storage hub to refineries at Qingzhou.
Weigao Blood Purification
Weigao Blood Purification is a Chinese maker of hemodialyzers, tubing, and dialysis machines, founded in 2004 in Weihai and listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2025.
Weigao Interventional
Weigao Interventional, or Shandong Weigao Interventional Medical Technology, is a Chinese interventional device group in Weihai, Shandong, owned by Weigao Group and known for the Xinsorb bioresorbable stent.
Weigela
Weigela, a genus of about ten deciduous shrub species in Caprifoliaceae native from China to the Russian Far East and Japan, named for C.E. von Weigel; famous for W. florida, over 130 garden cultivars in eight Hoffmann Groups, and spring trumpet flowers on old wood.
Weigh station
A weigh station, or weighing station, is a roadside checkpoint where commercial trucks are weighed and checked for compliance, typically using weigh-in-motion sensors paired with static scales.
Weigh-in-motion
Weigh-in-motion (WIM) is a transportation engineering method that estimates a road vehicle's axle loads and gross weight from sensors it drives over, without stopping, for enforcement screening and pavement design.
Weighing scale
A weighing scale, also called a balance, is an instrument that determines the mass or weight of an object, using known weights, a spring, or electromagnetic force.
Weighing the Giants
Weighing the Giants (WtG) is a collaborative astronomy project that measured weak-gravitational-lensing masses for 51 X-ray luminous galaxy clusters, calibrating masses for cluster cosmology experiments.
Weight
Weight is, in science, the gravitational force on a body, measured in newtons, while everyday and commercial use usually treat it as mass in kilograms.
Weight (representation theory)
In representation theory, a weight of a representation of a Lie algebra is a linear functional on a Cartan subalgebra recording the eigenvalues with which it acts on certain vectors.
Weight and balance
Weight and balance is the aviation discipline of confirming an aircraft's total loaded weight and center of gravity stay within certified limits, a required check before every flight.
Weight and balance errors in aviation
Weight and balance errors in aviation are accident causes where an aircraft flies overweight, outside its center-of-gravity limits, or with a load that shifts in flight.
Weight class (boxing)
Weight class (boxing): divisions limiting maximum body weight for competition. Eight traditional classes set by London's National Sporting Club in 1909; 17 professional men's divisions today under WBA, WBC, IBF, and WBO, from 105 lbs to unlimited.
Weight cutting
Weight cutting: rapid body mass reduction before weigh-ins in weight-class combat sports like boxing, wrestling, judo, and MMA, using dieting, dehydration, and water loading; cuts up to about 5% with rehydration generally preserve strength and power, larger cuts carry health risks.
Weight decay
Weight decay is a regularization technique for training neural networks in which weights are multiplicatively shrunk toward zero each step, traditionally by adding an L2 penalty to the loss function.
Weight gain
Weight gain: increase in body weight from energy intake exceeding expenditure; unintentional gain signals causes such as medicines, hypothyroidism, Cushing syndrome, fluid retention, menopause, or smoking cessation.
Weight initialization
Weight initialization, also called parameter initialization, is the assignment of starting values to a neural network's weights before training, since poor scaling can keep deep networks from training at all.
Weight lattice
The weight lattice is the lattice of vectors pairing integrally with every coroot of a root system; its dominant weights classify the irreducible finite-dimensional representations of a semisimple Lie algebra.
Weight loss
Weight loss: deliberate reduction of body mass via negative energy balance. CDC advises 1–2 lb/week; 5% loss improves health markers; diets differ little long-term; adaptive thermogenesis resists loss; GLP-1 drugs now covered by Medicare trial.
Weight-average molecular weight
The weight-average molecular weight (Mw) is a statistical average for polymer samples with chains of different lengths, weighting heavier chains more; it is always at least the number-average.
Weight-Bearing
Weight-bearing is the physical state of supporting an applied load, typically body weight carried by the spine, hip, knee, and foot; weight-bearing exercise strengthens bone, unlike swimming or cycling.
Weight-bearing computed tomography
Weight-bearing computed tomography (WBCT) is a cone-beam CT technique that images joints, usually in the foot and ankle, while the patient stands, recording alignment under load.
Weight-only quantization
Weight-only quantization is a model compression technique that stores neural network weights in 4-bit or 8-bit integers while keeping activations and computation in high precision.
Weighted arithmetic mean
The weighted arithmetic mean is an average in which each value is multiplied by a weight reflecting its importance, reducing to the ordinary mean when weights are equal.
Weighted average cost method
Weighted average cost is an inventory cost-flow method that values cost of goods sold and ending inventory at a weighted-average unit cost, permitted by IAS 2 alongside FIFO.
Weighted average cost of capital
The weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is a company's blended required return, the market-value-weighted average of its after-tax cost of debt and cost of equity.
Weighted correlation network analysis
Weighted correlation network analysis, also known as weighted gene co-expression network analysis, is a statistical method that groups correlated genes into modules and identifies hub genes.