preweight

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...