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downweight en · NOUN

Etymology

From down- + weight.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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 friction 2004, Robert Palmieri, editor, The Piano: An Encyclopedia, second edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 401:

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upweight

Hypernyms

touchweight

downweight en · VERB

Etymology

From down- + weight.

Meanings

1. 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:

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Antonyms

upweight