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prebreak

prebreak adjective: before a break.

Adjective

prebreak (not comparable)

  1. Before a break.
    • The Knicks’ prebreak ineptitude appeared set to continue on the game’s first possession, which ended with a shot-clock violation as Jamal Crawford air-balled a desperate 3-pointer.2008 February 20, Mike Ogle, “Well-Rested Knicks Show Some Fight in Overtime”, in New York Times

Verb

prebreak (third-person singular simple present prebreaks, present participle prebreaking, simple past prebroke, past participle prebroken)

  1. To break up large chunks of material into a size that is more convenient for further processing.
    • Prebreakers are used to prebreak or crush cocoa presscakes, fats, large fruit or vegetables, whole fish, bones, etc.1963, Maynard Alexander Joslyn, John Laurence Heid, Food Processing Operations, page 426
    • If you need to separate, mix, size, wash, reduce, rinse, granulate, prebreak, grind, mill, disperse, decake, pulverize, blend Why not increase your profits in the process?1967, Canadian Chemical Processing, volume 51, page 80

Noun

prebreak (uncountable)

  1. The initial stage of processing, in which material is prebroken.
    • The incoming material is coarsely ground (prebreak), and placed in steam-jacketed cookers.1989, Charles M. Mohr, Membrane Applications and Research in Food Processing, page 42
    • A feed wheel slides the blanks off the bottom, one at a time, where they are carried between belts moving at up to 2,000 ft (610 m) per minute into a prebreak station.1998, Joseph F. Hanlon, Robert J. Kelsey, Hallie Forcinio, Handbook of Package Engineering, page 174

Forms of prebreak

third-person singular presentprebreaks
present participleprebreaking
pastprebroke
past participleprebroken

Origin of prebreak

From pre- + break.

Questions about prebreak

What does prebreak mean?
Prebreak means before a break.
What part of speech is prebreak?
Prebreak can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.

Words near prebreak in the dictionary

  1. prebrachial
  2. prebranch
  3. prebranchial
  4. prebreach
  5. prebreaded
  6. prebreak
  7. prebreaker
  8. prebreakers
  9. prebreakfast
  10. prebreaking
  11. prebreaks

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