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preweighted

preweighted is the simple past and past participle of preweight.

Meaning of preweight

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.
    • 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...1981, John Haugeland, Mind design: philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence

Questions about preweighted

What is preweighted the simple past and past participle of?
Preweighted is the simple past and past participle of preweight.

Words near preweighted in the dictionary

  1. preweanlings
  2. prewedding
  3. preweigh
  4. preweighed
  5. preweight
  6. preweighted
  7. preweighting
  8. preweights
  9. prewelding
  10. prewelfare
  11. prewellordering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: preweighted (page history and authors); preweight (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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