Downweight
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Downweight is a verb meaning (statistics) To give something a lower weight.
Meaning
(statistics) To give something a lower weight.
More Meanings
- (music) The amount of pressure (in grams) required to press a key on a piano.
Example Sentences
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.
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 with one's fist to break the starting friction
Word Forms
- downweights
- downweighting
- downweighted
Antonyms for downweight
Common opposites include upweight.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include deweight, unweight, lightweight, slight, underweight, lower.
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