downweight

downweight verb: to give something a lower weight.

Verb

downweight (third-person singular simple present downweights, present participle downweighting, simple past and past participle downweighted)

To give something a lower weight.
- In addition, both adaptive and robust methods downweight outliers. Note that, if a large sample is taken, the M-estimation procedure will generally downweight some of the largest residuals, even if the error terms were normally distributed.2004, Thomas W. O'Gorman, Applied Adaptive Statistical Methods: Tests of Significance and Confidence Intervals, SIAM, →ISBN, page 12
Antonyms:

upweight

downweight (countable and uncountable, plural downweights)

The amount of pressure (in grams) required to press a key on a piano.
- Piano technicians have to measurements at their disposal for measuring touchweight: downweight and upweight. Downweight and upweight are measured in grams. To measure downweight, a gram weight is placed on the key at the front and a rap or thump is given to the shop bench, KEYBED, or action stack...2004, Robert Palmieri, editor, The Piano: An Encyclopedia, second edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 401

Verb
third-person singular present	downweights
present participle	downweighting
past participle	downweighted
past	downweighted
Noun
plural	downweights

From down- + weight.

What does downweight mean?: Downweight means to give something a lower weight.
What part of speech is downweight?: Downweight can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of downweight?: The past tense of downweight is downweighted.

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