weighting
Definitions
General Science
- noun the process of sorting users, programs or data by their importance or priority
Accounting
- noun an additional salary or wages paid to compensate for living in an expensive part of the country
- noun a tariff or bonus added to something as a result of sorting things according to their importance or position
Marketing
- noun a statistical process which gives more importance to some figures or results than others in the process of reaching a final figure or result
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