downweighting

English

Verb

downweighting

  1. present participle and gerund of downweight

Noun

downweighting (plural downweightings)

  1. The process by which something is downweighted.
    • 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:
      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.
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