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.