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pre-echoes

pre-echoes is the plural of pre-echo.

Meaning of pre-echo

Noun

pre-echo (countable and uncountable, plural pre-echos or pre-echoes)

  1. (countable) An early sign or indication of something; a foreshadowing.
    • From the earliest days Christians had searched the Tanakh in their anxiety to find pre-echoes of their own passionate convictions about the God-Man Jesus Christ.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 140
  2. A digital audio compression artifact where a (typically percussive) sound is heard before it should occur.
    Synonyms:
    forward echo

Questions about pre-echoes

What is pre-echoes the plural of?
Pre-echoes is the plural of pre-echo.

Words near pre-echoes in the dictionary

  1. pre-drinking
  2. pre-drinks
  3. pre-drunk
  4. pre-E
  5. pre-echo
  6. pre-echoes
  7. pre-echos
  8. pre-eclampsia
  9. pre-eclampsias
  10. pre-eclamptic
  11. pre-ejaculate

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