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preweights

preweights is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 preweights

What is preweights the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Preweights is the third-person singular simple present indicative of preweight.

Words near preweights in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: preweights (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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