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prefiltering

prefiltering is the present participle and gerund of prefilter.

Meaning of prefilter

Verb

prefilter (third-person singular simple present prefilters, present participle prefiltering, simple past and past participle prefiltered)

  1. (transitive) To filter in advance.
    • The prefiltered data was fed to a computer program for analysis.

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Noun

prefiltering (plural prefilterings)

  1. A filtering performed in advance.

Forms of prefiltering

pluralprefilterings

Questions about prefiltering

What does prefiltering mean?
Prefiltering means a filtering performed in advance.
What is prefiltering the present participle and gerund of?
Prefiltering is the present participle and gerund of prefilter.
What part of speech is prefiltering?
Prefiltering is a noun.
What is the plural of prefiltering?
The plural of prefiltering is prefilterings.

Words near prefiltering in the dictionary

  1. prefills
  2. prefilm
  3. prefilmic
  4. prefilter
  5. prefiltered
  6. prefiltering
  7. prefilterings
  8. prefilters
  9. prefiltration
  10. prefinal
  11. prefinalist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prefiltering (page history and authors); prefilter (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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