weighting
weighting is the present participle and gerund of weight.
Meaning of weight
Verb
weight (third-person singular simple present weights, present participle weighting, simple past and past participle weighted)
- To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
- To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
- To load, burden or oppress someone.
- To assign weights to individual statistics.
- To bias something; to slant.
- The criteria governing the choice of candidate were heavily weighted in his favor.
- To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
Noun
weighting (plural weightings)
- The weight or significance given to something, sometimes by means of a statistical multiplier.
- Higher weightings were assigned to data from double-blind studies.
Forms of weighting
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Phrases with weighting
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Questions about weighting
- What does weighting mean?
- Weighting means the weight or significance given to something, sometimes by means of a statistical multiplier.
- What is weighting the present participle and gerund of?
- Weighting is the present participle and gerund of weight.
- What part of speech is weighting?
- Weighting is a noun.
- What is the plural of weighting?
- The plural of weighting is weightings.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: weighting (page history and authors); weight (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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