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.
The standard score (more commonly referred to as a z-score) is a very useful statistic because it (a) allows us to calculate the probability of a score occurring within our normal distribution and (b) enables us to compare two scores that are from different normal distributions.