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precalcine

precalcine verb: to calcine in advance.

Verb

precalcine (third-person singular simple present precalcines, present participle precalcining, simple past and past participle precalcined)

  1. (transitive) To calcine in advance.

Forms of precalcine

third-person singular presentprecalcines
present participleprecalcining
past participleprecalcined
pastprecalcined

Origin of precalcine

From pre- + calcine.

Words formed from precalcine

Questions about precalcine

What does precalcine mean?
Precalcine means to calcine in advance.
What part of speech is precalcine?
Precalcine is a verb.
What is the past tense of precalcine?
The past tense of precalcine is precalcined.

Words near precalcine in the dictionary

  1. precaecal
  2. precaffeinated
  3. precalc
  4. precalcarine
  5. precalced
  6. precalcine
  7. precalcined
  8. precalciner
  9. precalciners
  10. precalcines
  11. precalcining

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