title: What is the reason for the name of the Flyweight Design Pattern?
body: <p>I'm a non native English speaker, and trying to grasp a better understanding of that design pattern, I'm interested in the origin of that word for naming a pattern. What are the motivations for that name?</p>
  
  <p>As far I know the <a href="http://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/PatternFlyweight.aspx">flyweight design pattern</a> is concerned with a way to support large number of fine-grained objects using sharing.</p>
  
  <p>However, the definitions I'd found for that specific word (flyweight) refers to the boxing category of weight of less than 112 pounds.</p>
  
  <p>So, why the pattern is called in this way? </p>
  
  <p>Sorry if this seems foolish, but I really have no clue.</p>