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Anchoring
AN'CHORING
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Definition 2024
anchoring
anchoring
English
Noun
anchoring (countable and uncountable, plural anchorings)
- The act or means by which something is anchored or made firm.
- 2012, Professor Christian Hermansen Cordua, Manifestoes and Transformations in the Early Modernist City (page 161)
- Stripped of its temporal anchorings, what remains of Geddes's thinking was its inactual or anachronic idealism, which often isolated him from his contemporaries […]
- 2012, Professor Christian Hermansen Cordua, Manifestoes and Transformations in the Early Modernist City (page 161)
- (psychology) The tendency of people to place subsequently refined answers to a given question close to the initially estimated answer, giving unduly weight to the initial answer, such as adjusting the initial estimate of "20%" to "30%" when "90%" would be more appropriate.
Synonyms
- (psychology): focalism
Verb
anchoring
- present participle of anchor