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A small, decorative, somewhat weighty object placed on one or more pieces of paper to keep them from fluttering away..
The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
John used his coffee mug as a paperweight.
On Windows, the card has a working driver. On Linux right now, it's a paperweight.
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Paper weight means A small, decorative, somewhat weighty object placed on one or more pieces of paper to keep them from fluttering away..
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The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
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