relative weight
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrelativeandweight
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relative
adjective
uk/ˈrel.ə.tɪv/us/ˈrel.ə.t̬ɪv/
being judged or measured in comparison with ...
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weight
noun
uk/weɪt/us/weɪt/
the amount that something or ...
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(Definition ofrelativeandweightfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The preposition para is the most frequent and is associated with the highestrelativeweight.
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Other results suggest therelativeweightof different power resources in the emerging allocation process.
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This increases therelativeweightof faults for which there are only few classifiers.
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The absence of an age trend inrelativeweightis to be expected.
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Determining therelativeweightof the different features is a delicate matter.
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Our central theoretical interest is less the prediction of particular electoral outcomes than the assessment of therelativeweightof national and provincial conditions in individual vote choice.
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Secondly, without a prior analysis and time-scale, therelativeweightand place of the particular factors cannot be decided.
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The volume also gives history a privileged place in its framework of analysis in terms of therelativeweightit attributes to memory.
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In addition to identifying the polarity for each influence, it is possible to identify therelativeweightof each influence.
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In our population the mean value of subscapular skinfold thickness shows a significant increase with age, whereas the meanrelativeweightremains constant.
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Thus understood, the priority view picks a family of principles, depending on therelativeweightthat is assigned to gaining more utility compared to securing gains for the worse off.
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The complexity of the communicative purpose, as reflected in therelativeweightof the three frames, may constitute different contrastive genres for members of the community.
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Hence, sample size was the basic parameter accounting for therelativeweightof the studies.
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Our results also indicate that therelativeweightof frequency and diversity as determinants of productivity changes in the course of development.
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The multivariate analyses are carried out to estimate therelativeweightof independent variables on the choice between the pronominal variants.
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The underlying reasons for this attitude might be due arelativeweightin the prevailing values held among the members of health-care organizations.
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Preliminary analysis shows the difference to be significantly related to age, weight andrelativeweightand inversely related to height.
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Face strategies should be applied considering therelativeweightof each of these dimensions in a specific situation in a particular culture.
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