"The word weak is a generic adjective pertaining to a lack of strength. Weak is the opposite of strong. Look up strength in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... ... Strength can mean: Physical strength of organisms means (especially the muscles of most metazoa) of locomotion and movement Strength of materials in physics, engineering and materials science Strength is a rap compilation presented by Asiatic Warriors The word strengths is one of the longest English words with one syllable. ...

See the following sentence for example: Zack Mankes is weak.

General usage

A person may suffer muscle weakness. A person may be said to be weak, or the signs of life of a dying person may be said to be weak. A radio signal can be described as weak, as could a scientific theory or piece of art or literature. Thus, the term weak is often a subjective term. [[1]] Muscle weakness (or lack of strength) is a general term used during a diagnosis before the etiology can be identified. ... A person is defined by philosophers as a being who is in possession of a range of psychological capacities that are regarded as both necessary and sufficient to fulfill the requirements of personhood. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... This page deals with the cessation of life. ... In telecommunication, signalling (or signaling) has the following meanings: The use of signals for controlling communications. ... In mathematics, theory is used informally to refer to a body of knowledge about mathematics. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... This article is in need of attention. ...

Other usage

The word weak may also refer to:

Look up weak in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• In computer science, there are multiple meanings:
  • A weak consistency in concurrent programming refers to weaker consistency models.
  • A weak entity is a database entity that cannot be uniquely identified by its own attributes alone.
  • A weak reference is a reference that does not protect the referent object from collection by the garbage collector.
  • A weak symbol is a symbol definition in an object file or dynamic library that may be overridden by other symbol definitions.
• In physics, the weak nuclear force, one of the four fundamental forces of nature.
• In grammar, the term weak is used in opposition to the term strong to designate a conjugation or declension when a language has two parallel systems.
• In mathematics, there are multiple meanings:
  • The weak convergence of random variables of a probability distribution.
  • The weak convergence of a sequence in a Hilbert space.
  • The weak closure of subsets of Hilbert spaces.
  • The weak derivative defined on Sobolev spaces.
  • The weak topology, the weak polar topology, the weak operator topology and weak-star topology of functional analysis.
• In the science of hadith: Da'if
• In common slang, "weak" may be used to describe something unpleasurable (Ex: "We have a test today? Aww, weak!")
• In music, "Weak" is the title of several songs:
  • "Weak" (SWV song), a song by SWV
  • "Weak" (Skunk Anansie song), a song by Skunk Anansie
  • "I Get Weak" a song by Belinda Carlisle

Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... The name weak consistency may be used in two senses. ... Parallel programming (also concurrent programming), is a computer programming technique that provides for the execution of operations concurrently, either within a single computer, or across a number of systems. ... In a relational database, a weak entity is an entity that cannot be uniquely identified by its own attributes alone; therefore, it must use a foreign key in conjunction with its attributes to create a primary key. ... In computer programming, a weak reference is a reference that does not protect the referent object from collection by a garbage collector. ... In computer science, garbage collection (also known as GC) is a form of automatic memory management. ... In computing, a weak symbol is a symbol definition in an object file or dynamic library that may be overridden by other symbol definitions. ... In computer science, object file or object code is an intermediate representation of code generated by a compiler after it processes a source code file. ... In computer science, a Dynamic Library, also refered to as a Dynamically Linked Library, is a computer library that implements the concept of dynamic linking. ... Physics (from the Greek, (phúsis), nature and (phusiké), knowledge of nature) is the science concerned with the discovery and understanding of the fundamental laws which govern matter, energy, space, and time. ... The weak nuclear force or weak interaction is one of the four fundamental forces of nature. ... Grammar is the study of rules governing the use of language. ... In grammar, the term weak (originally coined in German: schwach) is used in opposition to the term strong (stark) to designate a conjugation or declension when a language has two parallel systems. ... A strong inflection is a system of verb conjugation or noun/adjective declension which can be contrasted with an alternative system in the same language, which is then known as a weak inflection. ... In linguistics, conjugation is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (regular alteration according to rules of grammar). ... In linguistics, declension is the inflection of nouns, pronouns and adjectives to indicate such features as number (typically singular vs. ... Euclid, Greek mathematician, 3rd century BC, known today as the father of geometry; shown here in a detail of The School of Athens by Raphael. ... In probability theory, there exist several different notions of convergence of random variables. ... In mathematics, weak convergence is a type of convergence of a sequence of points in a Hilbert space. ... In mathematics, a Hilbert space is a real or complex vector space with a positive definite sesquilinear form, that is complete under its norm. ... In mathematics, a weak derivative is a generalization of the concept of the derivative of a function (strong derivative) for functions not assumed differentiable, but only integrable, i. ... In mathematics, a Sobolev space is a normed space of functions obtained by imposing on a function f and its weak derivatives up to some order k the condition of finite Lp norm, for given p ≥ 1. ... In mathematics, weak topology is an alternative term for initial topology. ... In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics the weak topology is the coarsest polar topology, the topology with the fewest open sets, on a dual pair. ... In functional analysis, the weak operator topology, often abbreviated WOT, is the weakest topology on the set of bounded operators on a Hilbert space such that the functional sending an operator T to the complex number is continuous for any vectors x and y in the Hilbert space. ... The weak-star topology can refer to a topology related to the weak topology. ... Functional analysis is the branch of mathematics, and specifically of analysis, concerned with the study of spaces of functions. ... The Science of hadith is the process that Muslim scholars use to evaluate hadith. ... In Islamic context, Daif is a the categorization of a hadiths authenticity as weak. Other categorizations include sound (as in, a sound proposal), good and fabricated. ... Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speakers dialect or language. ... Weak is a R&B ballad recorded by vocal girl group SWV for their 1992 debut album Its About Time. ... Weak was the fourth single to be released by Skunk Anansie. ...

Famous people

Unlike the word strong, and perhaps not surprisingly, there are few if any famous people whose surname is Weak. Strength can mean: Physical strength of organisms means (especially the muscles of most metazoa) of locomotion and movement Strength of materials in physics, engineering and materials science Strength is a rap compilation presented by Asiatic Warriors The word strengths is one of the longest English words with one syllable. ... Celebrities often have a symbiotic relationship with photographers. ...

See also

• Germanic weak verb
• Mild
• Weakness
• Week