High-overhead baroque code-intensive featureful, but costly. Especially used of communication protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at the expense of mundane considerations such as speed, memory use and startup time. Emacs is a heavyweight editor X is an *extremely* heavyweight window system. This term isn' t pejorative, but one hacker' s heavyweight is another' s elephantine and a third' s monstrosity. Opposite: "lightweight". Usage: now borders on technical especially in the compound "heavyweight process". (1994-12-22)

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