weighted average
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3.7
- noun
- Specialized
:
promedio ponderado
- The final grade depends on the student's weighted average across all assignments and tests.
- time-weighted average
- weighted average cost
- weighted average score
Examples
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The final detection values presented are the weighted average of 10 stimulations as computed by the software program.
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The daily spot prices are a volume-weighted average of each day's trades.
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This value here is the weighted average of the two values.
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From these estimates, one can calculate the weighted average loss for each use.
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Their final grade depends on their weighted average and where it fell on the letter grade scale.
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The trade-weighted average of actually applied import duties is now under five percent.
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The CFNAI is a weighted average of 85 existing monthly indicators of national economic activity.
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Intra-year indexes are found by using the weighted average of the two beginning-of-the-year parameters that surround it.
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Markets for recyclables have stayed stubbornly low, with weighted average values for curbside collected materials at about $40/ton.
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We employ a weighted average of the PPI and the price-performance trend to deflate multiuser computers.
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
An average that gives some numbers more importance using assigned values
An average where some numbers count more than others, for example when scores have different importance
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is straightforwardly compositional: 'weighted' indicates that some values carry more influence and 'average' is the representative number, so the meaning 'an average where contributions are scaled by weights' is directly derivable from the constituents. This construction is common in many languages and follows transparent adjective + noun logic, so a B1 learner who knows both words will likely understand it.
Etymology
Weighted average comes from the image of a balance scale: some items are heavier, so they count more when you find an average. The word weighted means each value has a 'weight' that shows its 'importance', so the final number is moved more by larger or more important values.