Winglets Save Billions of Dollars in Fuel Costs. Transportation. Originating Technology/NASA Contribution. Anyone who has made a paper airplane knows that folding the wingtips upward makes your plane look better and fly farther, though the reasons for the latter might be a mystery.
The noun SCORE has 11 senses: 1. a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance). 2. a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages.
Standard scores are scores calculated in a standard, or expected way. The mean on a test is the average score achieved by the subjects in the normalization study. IQ scores are standard scores calculated such that the mean is 100, and the standard deviation (a measure of difference from the norm) is 15 points.