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Weighted vs Adjusted - What's the difference?

weighted | adjusted |

As verbs the difference between weighted and adjusted

is that weighted is past tense of weight while adjusted is past tense of adjust.

As adjectives the difference between weighted and adjusted

is that weighted is having weights on it while adjusted is which has been compensated in order to avoid bias.

weighted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (weight)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having weights on it.
    • She wore a weighted dress so it wouldn't blow in the wind.
  • Biased, so as to favour one party.
    • The competition was weighted so he'd be the clear favourite to win.
  • (graph theory, of a graph) having values assigned to its edges
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    • , year=2012 , date=May 31 , author=Tasha Robinson , title=Film: Review: Snow White And The Huntsman citation , page= , passage=Huntsman starts out with a vision of Theron that’s specific, unique, and weighted in character, but it trends throughout toward generic fantasy tropes and black-and-white morality, and climaxes in a thoroughly familiar face-off. }}

    adjusted

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Which has been compensated in order to avoid bias

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (adjust)