MEANING
1. The relative importance or contribution assigned to something in a calculation, assessment, or decision.
2. Extra pay added to a salary because working in a particular area costs more.
Use it for
explaining why some observations influence a result more than others; making evaluation priorities explicit; discussing an adjustment for unequal representationMakes assigned importance explicit and distinguishes it from a geographic salary allowance. Academic functions: Research / Methodology, Evidence.
Words that belong together
- statistical weighting
- weighting of the evidence
- different weightings
On the page
The overall score changes when the weighting of the criteria changes.
The survey analysis explains its weighting rather than assuming that the adjustment removes every source of bias.
The employment comparison separates basic salary from the regional weighting included in the package.
Removing the location weighting changes the pay comparison but not the employees’ underlying job grades.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- weighting
Usage notes
Verified noun: weighting, weightings, for particular relative weights or allowances; the overall allocation of importance is often uncountable. The noun is not separately counted as a verb tense of weight. Register: technical. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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