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preactions

preactions is the plural of preaction.

Meaning of preaction

Noun

preaction (countable and uncountable, plural preactions)

  1. previous action
    • Now, if an iron be touched before, it varieth not in this manner; for then it admits not this magnetical impression, as being already informed by the loadstone, and polarily determined by its preaction.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Questions about preactions

What is preactions the plural of?
Preactions is the plural of preaction.

Words near preactions in the dictionary

  1. preacquittal
  2. preact
  3. preacted
  4. preacting
  5. preaction
  6. preactions
  7. preactivate
  8. preactivated
  9. preactivates
  10. preactivating
  11. preactivation

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