Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

downweight

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: down-weight
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To give something a lower weight.

noun

The amount of pressure (in grams) required to press a key on a piano.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
"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"

Etymology

From down- + weight.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: down

Usage

Inflected Forms

downweights (present, singular) downweighting (participle, present) downweighted (participle, past) downweighted (past) downweights (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

upweight

Antonyms

upweight

Questions

What does downweight mean?: To give something a lower weight.
Where does downweight come from?: From down- + weight.

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