Explanation WEIGHTING: Systematic adjustment of a measurement to highlight a particular criterion. For example, SPL (sound pressure level) measurements can be weighted to approximate how people perceive sound, placing more emphasis on midrange frequencies than on higher or lower ones
More definitions for Mac OS users such as weighting in Dictionary W.
- Help WaitNextEvent:
- Usage The function that drove the event loop in older versions of the Mac OS. See also Classic Event Manager weighting definition.
- Help WorldScript:
- Usage A group of Mac OS managers, extensions, and resources that facilitate multilingual text processing weighting explain.
- Help Wheel Group:
- Usage group, membership in which confers on users the ability to become the root user by using the su utility on the command line. Users who are not in the wheel group can’t become the root user, even if weighting what is.
- Help WAV:
- Usage digital audio file format originally developed for IBM-compatible PCs. Although WAV files can hold compressed audio data, they most commonly hold uncompressed linear PCM data. WAV is a variant of the weighting meaning.
- Help Wired Memory:
- Usage that the virtual-memory system does not page out or move. The memory involved in an I/O transfer must be wired down to prevent the physical relocation of data being accessed by hardware. In the I/O weighting abbreviation.
