Deadweight

Deadweight or dead weight may refer to:

Music

• Deadweight (band), a San Francisco alternative hard rock trio
• Deadweight (album), an album by Wage War
• "Deadweight" (song), a 1997 song by Beck from the film A Life Less Ordinary
• "Deadweight", a song by Roam from Backbone
• "Deadweight", a song by Parkway Drive from Deep Blue

Television

• "Dead Weight" (The Walking Dead), an episode of the television series The Walking Dead
• "Dead Weight" (1971), season 1, episode 3 of the TV series Columbo

Other uses

• Deadweight loss, a loss of economic efficiency that can occur when equilibrium for a good or service is not Pareto optimal
• Deadweight tonnage, a ship's carrying capacity, which includes cargo, fuel, crew, etc.
• Dead weight or dressed weight, the weight of an animal carcass after removal of skin, head, feet, visceral organs, etc.

See also

• Structural load, one type of this is dead load, the fixed weight of a structure, such as a bridge on its supports