preflight
preflight adjective: taking place before the start of a flight.
Adjective
preflight (not comparable)
- Taking place before the start of a flight.
- Serving to confirm that requests can be accepted, before sending an actual request.
- a CORS preflight request
Noun
preflight (plural preflights)
- An inspection of an aircraft before the start of a flight.
- The portion of the movement after launching from the springboard but before pushing off the vault.
- Between the preflight and postflight is the block, a rapid motion in which the gymnast’s hands hit the vault and she pushes herself off, converting the horizontal momentum from her sprint down the runway into vertical momentum.2024 July 27, Maggie Astor, “Your Guide to Olympic Gymnastics: Vault”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2024
Verb
preflight (third-person singular simple present preflights, present participle preflighting, simple past and past participle preflighted)
- To perform an inspection of an aircraft before the start of a flight.
Forms of preflight
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | preflights |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | preflights |
| present participle | preflighting |
| past participle | preflighted |
| past | preflighted |
Origin of preflight
From pre- + flight.
Questions about preflight
- What does preflight mean?
- Preflight means taking place before the start of a flight.
- What part of speech is preflight?
- Preflight can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
Words near preflight in the dictionary
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