Score

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Contents 1 Numbers and statistics 2 Economics 3 Arts and crafts 4 Media 5 Figurative uses 6 Organisations 7 Various

Score may refer to:

[edit] Numbers and statistics

• Score (game), a number of points achieved in a sporting event or game.
• a unit of twenty, e.g. "four score and seven years ago" = eighty-seven years ago. One score equals twenty years.
• 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.
• A large, indeterminate number: "some words have scores of meanings".

[edit] Economics

• Dynamic scoring
• Static scoring

[edit] Arts and crafts

• Musical score, a set of instructions giving the overall picture of a composition. See sheet music. Much aleatoric music also makes of use of so-called "scores", which may employ special notational methods or even verbal descriptions.
• Dance score, a set of choreographic instructions expressed in a dance notation.
• SCORE, a music scorewriter
• Film score, a sound recording of the music in a film
• Score (album), the live CD/DVD 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
• I Like to Score, an album by Moby, punning on the sexual, drug related, and film music uses of the word.
• A method of creating an indent - usually in paper - to avoid excessive fiber strain when creasing it.

[edit] Media

• Final Score/Score, a BBC soccer programme
• Score, a sports trading card brand
• SCORE (Czech), a computer gaming magazine
• Score (magazine), a pornographic magazine
• SCORE (Spain), a free general sports magazine
• SCORE (television), a defunct joint television network
• Score Entertainment, makers of the Dragon Ball Z trading card game
• Score Inverness, a former radio company
• SCORE (306) Radio: Counselors to America's Small Business, a radio show hosted by SCORE Westchester, Chapter 306

[edit] Figurative uses

• a slang term for the verb of 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.
• Superlative, usually followed by a High five (e.g. For Instance a Football team has won a game, two fans would shout "SCORE" then give each other a high five)
• A Theft or Robbery, usually a successful one.

[edit] Organisations

• SCORE! Educational Centers
• SCORE International, an Offroad racing organization
• SCORE Research, inventor of the SCORE Stove
• Acronym for the "Statistics, Computing, Operational Research and Economics" degree programme offered by University College London.
• SCORE Association, originally an acronym for Service Corps of Retired Executives, is a resource partner with the Small Business Administration

[edit] Various

• Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite
• Scores (strip club) in New York City
• Scores (computer virus), an early computer virus affecting Macintosh computers

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