Pre-pŏn'der-an-çe or Pre-pŏn'der-an-cy, n.
n. [Fr. prépondérance, Sp. preponderancia, It. preponderanza.] 1. The state or quality of being preponderant or preponderating; superiority of weight, influence, or power; an outweighing. “The preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability.” Locke.
In a few weeks he had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed. Macaulay.
Sense 2. (Mil.) The excess of weight of that part of a cannon in the rear of the trunnions over that in front of them.