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precorrect

precorrect verb: to correct (remove systemic errors) before another operation.

Verb

precorrect (third-person singular simple present precorrects, present participle precorrecting, simple past and past participle precorrected)

  1. To correct (remove systemic errors) before another operation
    • Unlike [4], we used standardized data and did not precorrect the systematic effects from the data.2016 February 2, “Use of Wishart Prior and Simple Extensions for Sparse Precision Matrix Estimation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of precorrect

third-person singular presentprecorrects
present participleprecorrecting
past participleprecorrected
pastprecorrected

Origin of precorrect

From pre- + correct.

Questions about precorrect

What does precorrect mean?
Precorrect means to correct (remove systemic errors) before another operation.
What part of speech is precorrect?
Precorrect is a verb.
What is the past tense of precorrect?
The past tense of precorrect is precorrected.

Words near precorrect in the dictionary

  1. precornua
  2. precoronal
  3. precoronation
  4. precoronavirus
  5. precoronoid
  6. precorrect
  7. precorrected
  8. precorrecting
  9. precorrection
  10. precorrections
  11. precorrects

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