"anchoring" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: anchorings [plural]
Etymology: From anchor + -ing. Etymology templates: {{af|en|anchor|-ing}} anchor + -ing Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} anchoring (countable and uncountable, plural anchorings)
  1. The act or means by which something is anchored or made firm. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-anchoring-en-noun-PCBLeGSK
  2. (psychology) The tendency of people to place subsequently refined answers to a given question close to the initially estimated answer, giving undue weight to the initial answer, such as adjusting an initial estimate of 20% to 30% when 90% would be more appropriate. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Psychology Synonyms: focalism
    Sense id: en-anchoring-en-noun-y~mIIpr9 Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: anchoring effect

Verb [English]

Etymology: From anchor + -ing. Etymology templates: {{af|en|anchor|-ing}} anchor + -ing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} anchoring
  1. present participle and gerund of anchor Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: anchor
    Sense id: en-anchoring-en-verb-g2wmg6-2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ing Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 39 54 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing: 13 37 50

Inflected forms

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