preweight

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English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ weight.

Verb

preweight (third-person singular simple present preweights, present participle preweighting, simple past and past participle preweighted)

  1. (transitive) To supply (an algorithm, etc.) with precalculated weights.
    • 1981, John Haugeland, Mind design: philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence:
      But since in Winston's work the programmer selects and preweights the primitives, his program gives us no idea how a computer could make this selection...