downweighting
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
downweighting
- present participle and gerund of downweight
Noun[edit]
downweighting (plural downweightings)
- 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[1]:
- 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.