preponderance

noun4

1. •
   Superiority in amount or number; the bulk or majority; also, a large amount or number; an abundance, a profusion.

   • [S]trong proofs are at hand to shew, that in the Irish people there is a large admixture, if not an overwhelming praeponderance, of Iberian elements. — 1857
2. •
   Superiority of influence, power, a quality, etc.; an outweighing, predominance, pre-eminence.

   • In a few weeks he [William III of England] had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed. — 1851
3. •
   (no longer used) Greater physical weight.
4. •
   (no longer used, historical) The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.