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downweighting

downweighting is the present participle and gerund of downweight.

Meaning of downweight

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

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Noun

downweighting (plural downweightings)

The process by which something is downweighted.
- Foreground structures have a stronger effect on the lens potential than background structures, due to non-linear effects in the foreground and downweighting in the background.2016, Curtis McCully, Charles R. Keeton, Kenneth C. Wong, Ann I. Zabludoff, “Quantifying Environmental and Line-of-Sight Effects in Models of Strong Gravitational Lens Systems”, in arXiv

Forms of downweighting

plural	downweightings

Questions about downweighting

What does downweighting mean?: Downweighting means the process by which something is downweighted.
What is downweighting the present participle and gerund of?: Downweighting is the present participle and gerund of downweight.
What part of speech is downweighting?: Downweighting is a noun.
What is the plural of downweighting?: The plural of downweighting is downweightings.

Words near downweighting in the dictionary

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