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downweightings

downweightings is the plural of downweighting.

Meaning of downweighting

Noun

downweighting (plural downweightings)

  1. 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

Questions about downweightings

What is downweightings the plural of?
Downweightings is the plural of downweighting.

Words near downweightings in the dictionary

  1. downweighing
  2. downweighs
  3. downweight
  4. downweighted
  5. downweighting
  6. downweightings
  7. downweights
  8. downwell
  9. downwelled
  10. downwelling
  11. downwellings

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