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 Score. 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.he mean score is 60 out of 100 and the standard deviation (in other words, the variation in the scores) is 15 marks (see our statistical guides, Measures of Central Tendency and Standard Deviation, for more information about the mean and standard deviation).