SCORING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scoring mean? 

• SCORING (noun)
  The noun SCORING has 1 sense:

1. evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score

  Familiarity information: SCORING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCORING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

grading; marking; scoring

Context example:

what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he had to do

Hypernyms ("scoring" is a kind of...):

evaluation; rating (act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of)

Derivation:

score (assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation)

 Context examples 

While all of 2020 will be outstanding for scoring career gains, this could be the most special one of all.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The scoring algorithm for this questionnaire assigns a value from 0 (not at all) to 4 (very much) to each item in the response categories, and the total score ranges between 0 and 176.

(Functional Assessment of Multiple Sclerosis Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

A scoring system described by Dr. Ishak and colleagues that assesses the histopathologic degree of liver damage.

(Ishak Score, NCI Thesaurus)

A numeric result derived from the BLAST raw score which is normalized to the statistical parameters of the scoring system in use.

(BLAST Bit Score, NCI Thesaurus)

A scoring system of disease severity in patients with end-stage liver disease.

(Model for End-Stage Liver Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

A clinical scoring method to monitor fetal asphyxia using four ultrasonic observations that include fetal breathing, fetal body movements, fetal tone, and amniotic fluid volume.

(Fetal Biophysical Profile, NCI Thesaurus)

"Like scoring a plate of glass, the trough renders the shelf weak, and in a few decades, it's gone, freeing the ice sheet to ride out faster into the ocean."

(Scientists describe how 'upside-down rivers' of warm water break Antarctica's ice shelf, Wikinews)

A private scoring engine developed by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute that can match tandem mass spectra with peptide sequences.

(Comet Scoring Engine, NCI Thesaurus)

Previous studies have linked being overweight with scoring lower on various measures of executive function, an umbrella term for several functions such as self-control, decision making, working memory (temporarily holding information for processing) and response to rewards.

(Childhood obesity linked to structural differences in key brain regions, University of Cambridge)

A system for scoring myelodysplasia syndrome progression risk, based on a combination of: percentage of blast cells in the bone marrow, the presence and severity of specific cytogenetic abnormalities, and the number of cytopenias in the peripheral blood.

(International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS) for Myelodysplastic Syndromes, NCI Thesaurus)