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postprint

postprint adjective: after (the era or technology of) printing.

Adjective

postprint (not comparable)

  1. After (the era or technology of) printing.
    • The coming of the digital age has made possible new postprint forms of representation, such as the blog and the online diary.2009, G. Thomas Couser, Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Life Writing, page 12

Noun

postprint (plural postprints)

  1. The version of a manuscript after it has gone through the peer-review process, but prior to publication in a learned journal; the author's final submission.

Forms of postprint

pluralpostprints

Origin of postprint

From post- + print.

Questions about postprint

What does postprint mean?
Postprint means after (the era or technology of) printing.
What part of speech is postprint?
Postprint can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near postprint in the dictionary

  1. postpresidencies
  2. postpresidency
  3. postpresidential
  4. postpreview
  5. postprimary
  6. postprint
  7. postprints
  8. postprison
  9. postprobate
  10. postprobationary
  11. postprocedural

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