(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance

Usage examples of weighting.

I could almost have suspected him of weighting the game when he threw the Wolf and the Storm first toss when all I could come up with was the Reed and the Harp, and that on my third throw.

Sanglant slept beside her, touching her only where an ankle crossed hers, weighting it down.

Alacrity gently detached the drop-netting from his brolly and hung it across the mouth of the cave, weighting the bottom and filling in gaps with dirt.

A master horologe, whose duty it was to determine the intime of returning pilots according to complicated formulae weighting Einsteinian time distortions against the unpredictable deformations of the manifold, had told me that Soli had aged one hundred and three years this last journey and would have died but for the skills of the Lord Cetic.

The cumbersome bliaut and chemise of rich royal blue velvet were as heavy as the dread weighting her shoulders.

That was when she built herself a computerized drum machine, programming it to write and play its own intersecting polyrhythms, using insanely complex weighting algorithms to make it stay with the stuff she finds pleasing.

This latter, the commonest of the species on the island, produces its flowers in long spikes in the axils of the leaves on the minor branches, weighting such branches with semi-pendulous plumes laden with haunting perfume.

Still, when the kender reappeared at the curve in the path, strolling along with a pack of angry cats pacing him, Chane was already binding vines to a log and weighting it with stones.

Each race had its own set of weightings and very often its own set of questions.

But a computer couldn't advise him, couldn't tell him that omitting an answer here and an answer there would upset all those delicately balanced weightings and inevitably distort the all-important win factors.

And then, if he was like Jonathan, he might have changed the weightings anyway, just to prevent Angelo from profiting.

Because it’s not far out of my normal character to feel that way inclined—Hanta didn’t rebuild her/me, she just tweaked a few weightings in my mind map.