An allowance paid to workers who live in certain areas of the country, such as London, to compensate for higher living costs.

The procedure of assigning different degrees of importance to values of a variable or to statistics according to some measures of reliability, areal coverage, etc.

The weight, or importance, given to the various constituent components of an index or economic indicator.

The process of assigning "weights" to different objects, especially to competing tenders, according to some established criteria for evaluating their relative merits or value and hence for m [..]

A Compute process that determines the suitability of the VM instances for a job for a particular host. For example, not enough RAM on the host, too many CPUs on the host, and so on.

Definition Specification of the relative importance of items when combined. For example, the percentage of a portfolio or index that a given stock represents.

noun. the procedure of multiplying test queries, subtests, presumptions which are a part of a test battery, or other gauges which are elements of a entire score by a weight other than 1.0. If all elem [..]

Use of an algorithm to predict the relevance of documents retrieved in a search, usually based on the frequency of search terms and their location in the bibliographic record (in title, descriptors, a [..]

Statistical process of determining a factor for an item to reflect the importance of the item as it relates to other items, e.g. one test item may be "weighted" to count twice as much as any [..]

Weighting is a mathematical process which allows individual values in a data set to be given greater or less impact in an equation than their values alone would contribute.

A process used to ensure that statistics produced from a sample are representative of the population from which the sample was drawn. Most large surveys include weights and descriptive statistics prod [..]

A “weighting function” applied to time-data prior to performing an FFT. Rectangular, Hann, Flat top, DP7, BH4, Force and Response.

An artificial curve applied to acoustic measurements across the frequency spectrum. C weighting is essentially flat. A weighting attempts to compensate for the non-constant sensitivity of human hearin [..]

Percentage or proportion of the portfolio invested in each asset class.

(n) (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance

UTAS uses a percentage point weighting system for its units to determine student contribution amounts. A full-time enrolment for one year is 100% weight. Most semester-long units are weighted at 12.5% [..]

assigning relative importance to each of a group of variables. For example, in a subject area one element may be assigned greater importance than others. In an exam, weighting may mean that one (value [..]

in cladistics, the empirically controversial (because non-quantifiable) yet necessary task of determining the phylogenetic significance of a particular character trait. For example, if there are three species of animals, one with brown fur, another with black fur, and one with brown scales, the presence or absence of fur is more important than the [..]

The use of sampling procedures may make it necessary to apply weights to produce accurate statistical results. Describe here the criteria for using weights in analysis of a collection. If a weighting [..]

A post-survey adjustment that may account for differential coverage, sampling, and/or nonresponse processes.

The assignment of weights to each respondent in a survey to more accurately represent the target market. While weighting can help offset imbalances in a completed sample, weighting has the effect of r [..]

An equalization curve used in audio tests that compensates for the Fletcher Munson Effect at various levels.