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Paperweight
noun, slang
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A small, decorative, somewhat weighty object placed on one or more pieces of paper to keep them from fluttering away.
"The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight."
- 2 a weight used to hold down a stack of papers wordnet
- 3 Any object used for this purpose.
"John used his coffee mug as a paperweight."
- 4 A useless piece of equipment. slang
"On Windows, the card has a working driver. On Linux right now, it's a paperweight."
Etymology
From paper + weight.
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