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precopying

precopying is the present participle and gerund of precopy.

Meaning of precopy

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

Questions about precopying

What is precopying the present participle and gerund of?
Precopying is the present participle and gerund of precopy.

Words near precopying in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: precopying (page history and authors); precopy (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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