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precopy

precopy verb: to copy in advance.

Verb

precopy (third-person singular simple present precopies, present participle precopying, simple past and past participle precopied)

  1. (transitive) To copy in advance.
    • However, in a true cloud computing environment, you don't know which other physical server the VM will be moved to, and therefore you don't know where to precopy the data.2015, James Bond, The Enterprise Cloud: Best Practices for Transforming Legacy IT, page 75

Forms of precopy

third-person singular presentprecopies
present participleprecopying
past participleprecopied
pastprecopied

Origin of precopy

From pre- + copy.

Questions about precopy

What does precopy mean?
Precopy means to copy in advance.
What part of speech is precopy?
Precopy is a verb.
What is the past tense of precopy?
The past tense of precopy is precopied.

Words near precopy in the dictionary

  1. precopied
  2. precopies
  3. precopula
  4. precopulas
  5. precopulatory
  6. precopy
  7. precopying
  8. precoracoid
  9. precoracoidal
  10. precoracoids
  11. precoralligenous

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