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Weight is the measurement of ___ force.

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Weight is the force with which we are pulled towards the center of the earth, and as we know that this force is termed as gravitational force. That's why we can say that mass and weight are different quantities. Mass is a scalar quantity whereas weight is a vector quantity.

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