Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of downweight
noundownweighting (plural downweightings)
plural downweightings
- The process by which something is downweighted.
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.
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
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