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counterweight: a weight, now commonly of iron, used to balance scenery and equipment.
Category: General

dollar-weighted: the interest rate that will make the present value of the cash flows from all the subperiods in the evaluation period plus the terminal market value of the portfolio equal to the initial market value of the portfolio
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

featherweight: a board with a particularly low density
Category: Various industries and crafts

featherweight: paper with a particularly low density
Category: Various industries and crafts

hundredweight: unit of weight in English-speaking countries; Equivalent to 112 pounds(50,8 kg) in the United Kingdom and Canada and 100 pounds(45,36 kg) in the U.S.
Category: Management in the public and private sector

lightweight: the displacement of a ship in tonnes without cargo,fuel,lubricating oil,ballast water,fresh water and feedwater in tanks,consumable stores,and passengers and crew and their effects
Category: Transport

low-birthweight: children born weighing less than 2,500 grams,with the measurement taken within the first hours of life,before significant postnatal weight loss has occurred
Category: Statistics

overweight: qualifies a holding in an index fund when the proportion of that share in the portfolio is greater than the proportion for that share in the calculation of the index
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

power-to-weight: the weight in pounds per horsepower output(BTM)
Category: Mechanical engineering

throw-weight: total weight of a missile`s warheads,dispensing mechanisms and penetration aids
Category: Defense

underweight: qualifies a holding in an index fund when the proportion of that share in the portfolio is less than the proportion for that share in the calculation of the index
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

unweighted: a mean of a set of observations in which no weights are attached to them,except in the trivial sense that each has weight unity
Category: Statistics

unweighted: in variance analysis,a simple method for the analysis of a set of results for which the sub-group frequencies are unequal.It involves taking the mean values for each subclass and carrying out an ordinary variance analysis on those means
Category: Statistics

weight: in a connectionist system:units in a connectionist system interact using weighted connections.The strength of these connections are called weigths
Category: General

weight: a quantifier expressing the significance a descriptor has in relation to the whole indexed item
Category: Documentation and information

weight: the attribution of a special value to various elements of a group,which gives them a position proportional to their importance
Category: Statistics

weight: the importance of an object in relation to a set of objects to which it belongs
Category: Statistics

weight: in a position representation,the factor by which the value represented by a character in the digit place is multiplied to obtain its additive contribution in the representation of a real number
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

weight: weight in the form of a plate.It is provided with openings to enable pouring
Category: Iron and steel industries

weight: general term denoting the metal weight placed on the mould to prevent its rising
Category: Iron and steel industries

weight: /..-- the degree of thickness of the strokes of a type character '--': gras, demi-gras, maigre.
Category: Printing and publishing

weighted: a form of mean intended to take account of the differing weights of the observations(or other values)to be averaged,each value being included a number of times in proportion to its supposed weight
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

weighted: weights are applied when one wishes to adjust the impact of cases(e.g.,persons)in the analysis,e.g.,to take account of the number of population units that each case represents.In sample surveys weights are most likely to be used with data derived from sample designs having different selection rates or with data having markedly different subgroup response rates
Category: Statistics

weighted: a noise having a power spectrum which is modified by a specified frequency selective network
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

weighted: an index number in which the component items are weighted according to some system of weights reflecting their relative importance
Category: Statistics

weighted: weight of particles enclosed in the flue gas,ascribed to the heat unit
Category: Environment

weighted: a group of educational or psychological tests wherein the relative importance of each test is determined by attaching a weight to the score obtained in that test
Category: Statistics

weighted: an average of quantities to which have been attached a series of weights in order to make proper allowance for their relative importance
Category: Statistics

weighted: the noise level weighted in accordance with the 70-dB equal-loudness contour of the human ear,expressed in decibels above 1 mW
Category: Physics

weighted: the ratio of weighted creep length to the difference in water levels at upstream and downstream of a hydraulic structure(effective head)
Category: Building industry

weighted: the indexing method in which the indexing terms are evaluated by the addition of weightings according to the relative proportion of the content of the documentary unit which they represent
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

weighted: creep length calculated on the basis of different weightages given to horizontal and vertical creeps according to practical considerations.Generally horizontal contact with the base,being less liable to have intimate contact with the base due to less resistance to percolation,are given lesser weightages
Category: Building industry

Weighting: the attribution of a special value to various elements of a group,which gives them a position proportional to their importance
Category: Statistics

Weighting: evaluation of the relative interfering effects of the various frequencies in the voice frequency spectrum as compared with the reference frequency(1000 Hz)
Category: News-systems and communications

weighting: the -- of silk with metallic salts...has long been in use...Degummed silk is steeped in a solution of tinchloride, and the silk filaments absorb some of the salt.
Category: Domestic economy

weightlessness: a condition of apparent absence of an acceleration field.This may be experienced during unopposed acceleration at that rate imposed by the gravitational field(e.g.,free fall in a vacuum or within a closed vessel),when the gravitational force is countered by an equal and opposite force(as in orbital flight)or during flight at escape velocity.Partial simulation is commonly conducted by immersion in a liquid of specific gravity close to that of the body
Category: Physics

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