foreform
foreform noun: an early or previous form; protoform.
Noun
foreform (plural foreforms)
- An early or previous form; protoform
- Mathematics in its foreform, as arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and the applications of the analytic method, as well as mathematics applied to matter and force or statics and dynamics, furnishes the peculiar study that gives to us, whether as children or as men, …1916, The Texas Mathematics Teachers' Bulletin - Volumes 1-5
- The most probable foreform must have been the Old Ir. Acc.Sg.f., that is *ayam (cf. Av. imí|m, aeümi).1982, Georg Morgenstierne, Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, Monumentum Georg Morgenstierne - Volume 2
Verb
foreform (third-person singular simple present foreforms, present participle foreforming, simple past and past participle foreformed)
- To form beforehand or in advance; prepare
Forms of foreform
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | foreforms |
| alternative form | fore-form |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | foreforms |
| present participle | foreforming |
| past participle | foreformed |
| past | foreformed |
Origin of foreform
From fore- + form.
Questions about foreform
- What does foreform mean?
- Foreform means an early or previous form; protoform.
- What part of speech is foreform?
- Foreform can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of foreform?
- The plural of foreform is foreforms.
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