"To assign a number" means to give or allocate a specific numerical value or identification to something or someone for identification, tracking, or categorization purposes.
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Applicants fill out various forms and are
assigned a number of points (based on factors such as a person's skill set or language ability, for example).
Interested adopters arriving early can enter through our main entrance door after 8 am to inquire about being
assigned a number for when visits and adoptions begin at 11 am.
These websites collect your data, analyze it,
assign you numbers through arguably arbitrary algorithms, and give you an ordered list of likely lovers.
Explain the way in which a random sample can be carried out
e.g. assigning a number to each member of the population and generating random numbers.
Apps to drop down menu options will be
assigned a number making it easier for users to just say it aloud to perform a task.
Once you obtain a traffic violation, you will be
assigned a number of points on your driving record.
Well, for decades the Internet
Assigned Numbers Authority has doled out blocks of IPv4 addresses, as needed, to five Regional Internet Registries around the world, which then assign addresses to users one by one.
One highlight of the year was the chance to participate in the inter-agency process that led up to the U.S. announcement of its intent to globalize responsibility for the
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions.
The process of learning and human development can not be
assigned a number value, and the people engaged in this process need to resist an attempt to commodify us.
An International Standard Book Number or ISBN is necessary when you publish a print book and most printers give you two options: use your own ISBN or they will
assign a number from their ISBN series.
For this reason, I think we, the gaming public need to be more patient with our game reviewers, or just resign ourselves to all agreeing on
not assigning number scores to game reviews at all.
Wilshere's loan decision must have been something being mulled over for a little while and not a last minute decision, especially before officially announcing the squad roster
with assigned numbers.
When the sensor on the tip of the catheter touches the wall of her contracting ventricle, a computer follows the pitching of the sensor as it rides the contraction and
assigns a number indicating the degree of the motion's abnormality.
Some B vitamins were discovered and
assigned a number only to be later found to be two separate elements, and so the numbering / naming system got a little out of order.
While previous entries had one player roll their dice, move about the map, and then have the next player in line do the same, Mario Party: Star Rush allows all players to roll their dice together,
get assigned the number of steps they can take, and when all players select where to go, then the action takes place.
El - Aref Law
Office assigns a number of attorneys in the office to work in special teams based on the complexity of each and every case.
The «glycemic index» is a measure of how a given food affects blood - glucose levels, with each food being
assigned a numbered rating.
It's too soon to say whether perusing our office social feed has actually helped me focus more attentively on the positive aspects of my work, but my self - assigned scores are typical of a trend that he and his staff have noted: When employees
start assigning numbers to their happiness levels, they vary dramatically.
Xerox has
long assigned numbers to its employment objectives, which is perhaps why the company is setting its sights even higher: It is aiming for 34 % of the executive leadership team to be female within the next five years (up from 28 % currently), according to Damika Arnold, global diversity and inclusion leader at Xerox.
In keeping with standard business practices, when transitioning activities, our vendor has
temporarily assigned a number of their employees onsite at RBC to affect this transition with a small number remaining on a go forward basis.
To braid a four - strand bread, first
mentally assign the numbers, 1, 2, 3, and 4 to the four positions the strands occupy on the surface (not to the stands themselves).
The draw for every round sees each
team assigned a number which is then placed inside a ball and chosen at random.
Let us
also assign a number of one bit per second to the data that flow into our senses as we go about our day and assume that we are awake for 12 hours a day.
Individual pixels, representative of approximately 3 square kilometers, were
assigned a number based on their degree of illumination, ranging from 0 (complete darkness) to 63 (brightly lit urban areas).
The formalism of quantum
mechanics assigns numbers called «q - probabilities» to each possible outcome of an arbitrary measurement.
The CSHL
method assigns a number to each set of biopsy cores, based on how many of the cores contain clonal cells, how many clonal cells each contains, and how far such cells have dispersed within the prostate.
Groups effectively allow you to manage users and courses belonging to the same group as a single entity, thus offering an efficient way to communicate with particular sets of users or to perform mass actions, e.g. to
mass assign a number of courses to all the members of the «Management» group.
I had them come up with a rating system of 1 - 4 and had them, at their table
groups assign a number to each exemplar.
The districts are among at least 13 in the Pennsylvania counties neighboring Philadelphia that are either doing away with rank entirely; keeping it under wraps for a few select colleges, such as military academies that require it; or changing the system to show how students compare with others in their class
without assigning numbers.
Every EO part or modification comes with a
unique assigned number and comes with limitation and restrictions on the installation and use of the part.
When you sell a book through Amazon without an ISBN,
Amazon assigns a number they call an ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number).
There are more than 150 ISBN - issuing agencies worldwide, so the process for procuring and
assigning these numbers varies by country or geographical region.