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.
DEFINITION of 'Credit Score'. A statistically derived numeric expression of a person's creditworthiness that is used by lenders to access the likelihood that a person will repay his or her debts.A credit score is based on, among other things, a person's past credit history. FICO score is the most widely used credit scoring system. FICO is an acronym for Fair Isaac Corporation, the company that provides the credit score model to financial institutions. There are other providers of credit scoring systems as well.