downweight

verb, noun — 2 senses

downweight

verb

Etymology From down- + weight.

1

Mathematics, Sciences, Statistics 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:

downweight

noun

Etymology From down- + weight.

1

Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music 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 with one's fist to break the starting friction2004, Robert Palmieri, editor, The Piano: An Encyclopedia, second edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 401:

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