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Noun: weighted arithmetic mean
  1. An average in which each quantity to be averaged is assigned a weight, determining the relative importance of each quantity on the average.
    "This simple mechanical model is now a familiar representation of the weighted arithmetic mean of a set of observations.";
    - weighted mean, weighted average

Type of: average, mean, mean value

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