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Examples of weighted in a Sentence
The head of the golf club was weighted.
Recent Examples of weighted from the Web
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Only a weighted consensus model, HCCA, which relies most heavily on the European model for its track forecast, was more accurate than the European model itself.
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The effect is similar to the weighted vest that soothes your jitters while sitting in the dentist’s chair.
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Under the weighted blankets, the patients showed more activity in the part of the nervous system that is in control during times of low stress.
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The price customers pay is a weighted average of contracts over a three-year period.
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This figure represents a weighted average of Medicaid payments per prescription, across various strengths, package sizes, routes and labels.
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Even the unexpected is accounted for – with Edsall, for example, leaving at least 30 minutes unoccupied each week so in-the-doghouse players can pull weighted sleds at 6 a.m. without surpassing the NCAA’s 20-hour weekly work limit.
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Fitness Class Adults can join trainer Connie Mullen and learn how to be fit by using a weighted hula hoop.
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Sensory-friendly kits for visitors include weighted lap pads, lavender lotion, stress balls and fidget spinners, crayons, coloring books and picture books.
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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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