unweight
/ʌnˈweɪt/
verb
- To remove weight or a burden from something; to make lighter.
- Engineers designed a system to unweight the bridge during repairs.
- She learned to unweight the sled to make it glide more easily over the snow.
- The hiker stopped to unweight his backpack by taking out some heavy items.
- In statistics or data analysis, to remove or adjust weighting factors so that data is not biased.
- The researcher decided to unweight the survey responses to correct for overrepresentation.
- The software allows you to unweight variables before running the analysis.
- You can unweight the data if the sample no longer needs to match population proportions.