
heavyweight
adj : heaviest in a category or of a heavyweight category (more
than 190 pounds for prizefighters); "a heavyweight
boxer"
n 1: an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds
2: a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds
3: a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds
4: a very large person; impressive in size or qualities [syn: {giant},
{hulk}, {whale}]
5: a person of exceptional importance and reputation [syn: {colossus},
{behemoth}, {giant}, {titan}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0
heavyweight adj. [common] High-overhead; {baroque}; code-intensive;
featureful, but costly. Esp. 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 utilization, 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}. Oppose
`lightweight'. Usage: now borders on techspeak, especially in the
compound `heavyweight process'.
Source: The Jargon File