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weighting |
2 definitions found 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}]
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