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pre-defined

pre-defined is the alternative form of predefined.

Meaning of predefined

Adjective

predefined (not comparable)

  1. Having been defined or established previously.
    • These new features are charizing, stringization, token concatenation, string concatenation, trigraph replacement, and predefined macros.1993, Mark Andrews, Visual C++ Object-oriented Programming, page 186

Questions about pre-defined

What is pre-defined the alternative form of?
Pre-defined is the alternative form of predefined.

Words near pre-defined in the dictionary

  1. pre-decimalization
  2. pre-decrement
  3. pre-decremented
  4. pre-decrementing
  5. pre-decrements
  6. pre-defined
  7. pre-dental
  8. pre-depression
  9. pre-determine
  10. pre-determined
  11. pre-determines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-defined (page history and authors); predefined (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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