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The head of the golf club was weighted.
Recent Examples of weighted from the Web
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The Nasdaq index, heavily weighted toward technology, fell 193.33 points, or 2.7%.
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But Levinson and Pacino don't treat Paterno as some culture-war issue about which there are two equally weighted opinions.
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Treble-hook hardbaits don't do well around weedy cover, however--for these locations, a 4 to 5-inch soft plastic swimbait on a weighted head is a better choice.
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The measurement is then used to evaluate a suite of commercial atomic clocks, also stored in egg incubation chambers, and give them a weighted grade.
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His father drilled him and his brother, Bobby, with everything from weighted balls and heavy punching bags to tire-flipping, all to build arm strength, and the results in each were clear.
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From time to time, Zizic and Potapenko even use a weighted training basketball.
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Chavez has a weighted 4.42 grade-point average, tutors and does volunteer work in youth basketball.
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For payments starting in 2020, the quality rating after a consolidation will be a weighted average of all the merged contracts.
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First Known Use of weighted
1597
Financial Definition of WEIGHTED
weighted
What It Is
Weighted refers to the mathematical practice of adjusting the components of an index to reflect the importance of certain characteristics.
How It Works
Here is information about five stocks.
If we wanted to create an unweighted index of the price performance of these five companies, we might average their stock prices and call it a day (i.e., we would calculate the average as $8.60).
However, this unweighted average doesn’t take into account the issuers’ actual sizes or the number of shares outstanding (in other words, without reflecting the issuers’ true heft in the economy). The tiny companies can sway the index as much as the more significant companies. Accordingly, if one of the higher-priced stocks (Company D, in our example) has a huge price increase, the index is more likely to increase even if the other, more meaningful companies in the index decline in value at the same time.
Thus, we could create a weighted index to give more weight to the bigger issuers. We could do this by multiplying the share price by the shares outstanding, summing the totals, and then dividing by the total shares outstanding:
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Why It Matters
In the finance world, some indexes are weighted and some are not. It is important to understand how indexes are weighted so that you can understand what influences those indexes, what the index really conveys, and whether the index is relevant to your investment objectives.
Source: Investing Answers
WEIGHTED Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of weighted for English Language Learners
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: held in place or made heavier by a weight
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—used to say that something favors or does not favor a particular person, group, etc.
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