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prealignments

prealignments is the plural of prealignment.

Meaning of prealignment

Noun

prealignment (countable and uncountable, plural prealignments)

  1. An alignment prior to some other operation.
    • Nearly 1.8 million reads were removed during the prealignment steps of linker removal, QC and collapsing reads.2015 November 17, “miRge - A Multiplexed Method of Processing Small RNA-Seq Data to Determine MicroRNA Entropy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

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Questions about prealignments

What is prealignments the plural of?
Prealignments is the plural of prealignment.

Words near prealignments in the dictionary

  1. prealgebras
  2. prealign
  3. prealigned
  4. prealigning
  5. prealignment
  6. prealignments
  7. prealigns
  8. prealiquoted
  9. preallable
  10. preallably
  11. preallocate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prealignments (page history and authors); prealignment (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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