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pre-process

pre-process is the alternative spelling of preprocess.

Meaning of preprocess

Verb

preprocess (third-person singular simple present preprocesses, present participle preprocessing, simple past and past participle preprocessed)

  1. To process in advance.
    • If the desired result is to perform the smallest possible rotation between each pair of two orientations, you can preprocess the quaternions to achieve this.2001, Mark A. DeLoura, editor, Game Programming Gems 2, Charles River Media, Inc., →ISBN
    Antonyms:
    postprocess

Forms of pre-process

third-person singular presentpre-processes
present participlepre-processing
past participlepre-processed
pastpre-processed

Questions about pre-process

What is pre-process the alternative spelling of?
Pre-process is the alternative spelling of preprocess.

Words near pre-process in the dictionary

  1. pre-primary
  2. pre-print
  3. pre-printed
  4. pre-printing
  5. pre-prints
  6. pre-process
  7. pre-processed
  8. pre-processes
  9. pre-processing
  10. pre-production
  11. pre-productions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-process (page history and authors); preprocess (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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