Heavyweight

имя существительное 1) [спорт] тяжеловес 2) [используется в разговорной речи] тот, кто обладает большиим влиянием, авторитетом, властью Например: polical heavyweight — политический тяжеловес

Большой англо-русский словарь

Heavyweight

спорт тяжеловес

Англо-русский научно-технический словарь

Heavyweight

noun Usage: often attributive 1. one that is above average in weight 2. one in the usually heaviest class of contestants: as a. a boxer in an unlimited weight division — compare light heavyweight b. a weight lifter weighing more than 198 pounds 3. one that possesses great power, prominence, or stature

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

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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