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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Weight \Weight\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Weighted}; p. pr & vb n.
{Weighting}.]
1. To load with a weight or weights; to load down to make
heavy; to attach weights to as to weight a horse or a
jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.
The arrows of satire, . . . weighted with sense
--Coleridge.
2. (Astron. & Physics) To assign a weight to to express by a
number the probable accuracy of as an observation. See
{Weight of observations}, under {Weight}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
weighting
n : (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a
frequency distribution in order to represent their
relative importance [syn: {weight}]
more about weighting
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