Upweight
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Upweight is a verb meaning (statistics, transitive) To give a greater weight (or importance) to.
Meaning
(statistics, transitive) To give a greater weight (or importance) to.
More Meanings
- (music) The amount of weight (in grams) a piano key will lift back up from its depressed position.
Example Sentences
Piano technicians have to measurements at their disposal for measuring touchweight: downweight and upweight. Downweight and upweight are measured in grams.
In other words, politicians who feel distrusted may upweight the risks attached to policy failure, whilst politicians who feel mistrusted may upweight the risks attached to being ‘caught out’ in their BAB.
Word Forms
- upweights
- upweighting
- upweighted
Antonyms for upweight
Common opposites include downweight.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include outbalance, predominate, outrank, trump, outvalue, aggrandize.
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