Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The attachment to textile fabrics of substances which produce a spurious appearance of thickness and value: an adulteration frequently practised, and more common and carried much further on silk goods than on any others.
- noun In coal-mining, subsidence or other disturbance in a coal-mine due to “weight,” or pressure of the overlying mass of rock. A mine in which such subsidence is taking place is said to be “on the weight.”
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- verb Present participle of
weight . - noun figuratively
weights .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
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Examples
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The only way for the public to guage the effects of weighting is to look at the demographic numbers.
David C. Wilson: O'Donnell Closes Gap, or Coons up Big? The Dirt in Poll Details David C. Wilson 2010
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The "dollar-weighting" is weighting that there actually was more shares (and more dollars) injected into the company when the new follow-on public offering was made.
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The weighting is 50: 50 between the fans and Judge Panel.
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According to the ACM, she also discovered term weighting, a statistical method used to evaluate how important any given word is in a set of documents, and thus the word's significance for an individual document.
Karen Spärck Jones – Search Engine Pioneer on Ada Lovelace Day 2010 | miscellani.org 2010
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· Provides a number of parameter-free DFR term weighting models for automatic query expansion.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010
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Relevancy ranking, based on automatic term weighting
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Thesaurus files also permit you to configure the word weighting and word stemming options in a replacement set or an expansion set.
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The FAST Query Language, which supports advanced query operators like XRANK for dynamic (query time) term weighting and ranking.
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Despite term weighting and selecting have been studied in great depth in IR field, generally these solutions are focus to selecting terms from a single document [13].
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They're backing it up by being heavily defensive in a rising market, namely weighting their stock portfolios with two-thirds cash.
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