Score
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Score may mean:
Numbers and statistics
- Score (gaming), a number of points achieved in a sport or game
- a unit of twenty; e.g., "some words have scores ('twenties') of meanings."
- Score (statistics), the derivative, with respect to some parameter θ, of the logarithm of the likelihood function
- Raw score, an original datum that has not been transformed
- Standard score, a dimensionless quantity derived from the raw score
Figurative uses
- a slang term for sexual intercourse or related sexual activity (e.g., "did you score last night?").
- In drug users' jargon, to obtain drugs.
- to cut through part of the thickness of a flat object so that it may easily be broken along the scored line. E.g., medicinal tablets are often scored so they may be broken in half for smaller doses.
Organisations
- Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE), an organization of volunteers advising aspiring businesspeople.
- SCORE! Educational Centers
- SCORE International, an Offroad racing organization
- Acronym for the "Statistics, Computing, Operational Research and Economics" degree programme offered by University College London.
The Arts
- Sheet music for an ensemble, if it includes all parts in a single time sequence, giving an overall picture of the composition
- Film score, a sound recording of the music in a film
- The orchestration or arrangement of a piece of music.
- SCORE, the upcoming live album by progressive metal band Dream Theater.
- Score (film), a 1972 pornographic film
- Score, a UK-based football comic, originally Score and Roar, published in 1970, merged with rival comic Scorcher in 1971.
- A method used to join two pieces of pottery, each side is scored and then pressed together.
Media
- SCORE (Spain) a free general sports magazine published in Madrid and distributed along the Costa del Sol
- Score (magazine), a pornographic magazine co-published in the US and UK
Various
- Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite
- Scores (strip club) in New York City
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