upweight

English

Etymology

From up- +‎ weight.

Verb

upweight (third-person singular simple present upweights, present participle upweighting, simple past and past participle upweighted)

1. (statistics, transitive) To give a greater weight (or importance) to.

   Antonym: downweight

   • 2024, James Weinberg, Governing in an Age of Distrust: A Comparative Study of Politicians' Trust Perceptions and Why They Matter‎, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

     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.

Noun

upweight (countable and uncountable, plural upweights)

1. (music) The amount of weight (in grams) a piano key will lift back up from its depressed position.

   Hypernym: touchweight

   Coordinate term: downweight

   • 2004, Robert Palmieri, editor, The Piano: An Encyclopedia, second edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 401:

     Piano technicians have to measurements at their disposal for measuring touchweight: downweight and upweight. Downweight and upweight are measured in grams.