The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gross \Gross\, a. [Compar. Grosser; superl. Grossest.] [F. gros, L. grossus, perh. fr. L. crassus thick, dense, fat, E. crass, cf. Skr. grathita tied together, wound up, hardened. Cf. Engross, Grocer, Grogram.]
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Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large. ``A gross fat man.''
--Shak.A gross body of horse under the Duke.
--Milton. Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
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Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.
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Expressing, or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.
The terms which are delicate in one age become gross in the next.
--Macaulay. Hence: Disgusting; repulsive; highly offensive; as, a gross remark.
Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.
Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.
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Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net.
Gross adventure (Law) the loan of money upon bottomry, i. e., on a mortgage of a ship.
Gross average (Law), that kind of average which falls upon the gross or entire amount of ship, cargo, and freight; -- commonly called general average.
--Bouvier.
--Burrill.Gross receipts, the total of the receipts, before they are diminished by any deduction, as for expenses; -- distinguished from net profits.
--Abbott.Gross weight the total weight of merchandise or goods, without deduction for tare, tret, or waste; -- distinguished from neat weight, or net weight.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The total weight of a vehicle and its freight, fuel, passengers etc. 2 The total weight of a product and its packaging.
Usage examples of "gross weight".
Her limbs no longer supported the gross weight and her claws - there were five on each paw - were brittle and cracked, grown long and curled from lack of use.
Counting arms and armor, Antonina estimated their collective gross weight at twelve hundred pounds.
Normally the EB - I C Vampire could climb at over ten thousand feet per minute at gross weight-now she was lucky to get five hundred feet per minute without feeling the sloshing, muddy, unsteady wobbliness of an impending stall.
Then, in a long final session, the meeting argued out the merits of the comparative designs: possible crew sizes, surface stay capabilities, gross weight in Earth orbit, required delta-vee, aerodynamic characteristics like lift-over-drag ratio.
Galloway had concluded that the Maximum Gross Weight erred on the side of caution by about 20 percent (a thousand pounds).
Kerrick pushed her gross weight from him and climbed shakily to his feet.
With a gross weight of some thirty tons it would require some additional thrust for the first few seconds of flight-perhaps a rocket using hydride fuel and .
Estimates have placed her gross weight anywhere between four and ten tons.
That was too fast for comfort in an open vehicle, but torn metal showed where the folding top had been ripped off in a hurry to lower the gross weight.
Its gross weight had originally been almost ten kilograms, but only a little over eight remained.
The 340 horsepower engine would push the two-ton gross weight to 120 miles per hour.
What good would it do to discover that Desideria could manipulate small objects up to but not including eighteen grams gross weight?