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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

preweight en · VERB

Etymology

From pre- + weight.

Meanings

  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:

Forms

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preweighted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
preweighted Tense=Past lexicographic
preweights Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
preweighting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic