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precorrecting

precorrecting is the present participle and gerund of precorrect.

Meaning of precorrect

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

Questions about precorrecting

What is precorrecting the present participle and gerund of?
Precorrecting is the present participle and gerund of precorrect.

Words near precorrecting in the dictionary

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

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