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What does dead weight mean?

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Noun
  1. Unremitting heavy weight that does not move
  2. (idiomatic) that which is useless or excess; that which slows something down
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Finally, there is a limit for the dead weight of the structure if the structure is going to be floated out.
And, as it happens, the rescuer shedding what he knew would be the dead weight of his clothing was my great-great-grandfather, John Kitchel.
He has a best deep knee squat lift of 125 kilos, a best bench press lift of 80 kilos and a best dead weight lift of 150 kilos.
Since dead weight is dropped continuously, staging reduces the total amount of propellant needed to put people or satellites into orbit.
The large bureaucracies that implement dirigisme are a dead weight on society, but support the ruling elites with whom they share the spoils.
The common load overshoot or undershoot as known from traditional dead weight, or open-loop, systems is eliminated.

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