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preattends

preattends is the third-person singular simple present indicative of preattend.

Meaning of preattend

Verb

preattend (third-person singular simple present preattends, present participle preattending, simple past and past participle preattended)

  1. To attend ahead of time; to pay attention to or consider in advance.
    • While it had been previously concluded (Posner, 1980) that preattended locations are reached after shorter (manual) reaction times in comparison with non attended ones, the investigators mentioned above found, on the other hand, that saccadic reaction times were delayed for attended target...1995, J.M. Findlay, R. Walker, R.W. Kentridge, Eye Movement Research: Mechanisms, Processes and Applications, →ISBN

Questions about preattends

What is preattends the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Preattends is the third-person singular simple present indicative of preattend.

Words near preattends in the dictionary

  1. preattachment
  2. preattack
  3. preattend
  4. preattended
  5. preattending
  6. preattends
  7. preattention
  8. preattentional
  9. preattentive
  10. preattentively
  11. preauction

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