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say it: WAY-ting
weighting is a noun meaning "(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance". It is pronounced /ˈweɪtɪŋ/ — WAY-ting. It carries one recorded sense.
(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
statistics
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for weighting come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.