weighting

SayWAYT-ing/ˈweɪtɪŋ/

Pluralweightings

2 meanings of weighting

1
nounfigurativelycountable
The importance or value given to something, sometimes by using a number that multiplies its effect in a calculation.
Like a recipe where one ingredient counts double: it shapes the final flavor more than the rest.
Analysts applied a higher weighting to recent sales figures than to older data.
The index uses fixed weightings for each company based on its market size.
2
verb
Present participle of weight.
The committee is weighting each criterion before scoring the applications.
Engineers are weighting the base of the crane to prevent tipping.
Note
A form that carries every job the verb weight does, and in each of them it takes a direct object: weighting a crane's base, weighting fabric with barite, weighting a racehorse with a handicap, weighting statistics. As a gerund it can head a phrase, as in weighting the evidence fairly took weeks. Once it takes a plural, weightings, it has become the noun for assigned importance.

weighting is a form of weight

weight, verb: To assign a multiplier to each figure so that some count more than others in the result. Full entry

Forms: weightweights he/she/itweighting -ing formweighted past tense, past participle
Spelling: weight → weighting: add -ing

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