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Weighting   /wˈeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Weighting

noun
1.
(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance.  Synonym: weight.





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... rarely situated where great deltas have been forming, whether in Pliocene or post-Tertiary times. The number, also, of active volcanoes in oceanic islands is very great, not only in the Pacific, but equally in the Atlantic, where no load of coral matter...can cause a partial weighting and pressing down of a supposed flexible crust.") Would not the Atlantic and Antarctic volcanoes be the best examples for you, as there then can be no coral mud to depress the bottom? In my "Volcanic Islands," page 126, I just suggest that volcanoes may occur so frequently ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin
... Cecil, who had quite appreciated the small spice of risk in weighting the frail bark with an additional person; but then it was worth it to ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston


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