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preinstalling

preinstalling is the present participle and gerund of preinstall.

Meaning of preinstall

Verb

preinstall (third-person singular simple present preinstalls, present participle preinstalling, simple past and past participle preinstalled)

  1. (transitive) To install (software, etc.) in advance.
    • My computer came with the operating system preinstalled.

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Questions about preinstalling

What is preinstalling the present participle and gerund of?
Preinstalling is the present participle and gerund of preinstall.

Words near preinstalling in the dictionary

  1. preinspects
  2. preinstall
  3. preinstallation
  4. preinstallations
  5. preinstalled
  6. preinstalling
  7. preinstalls
  8. preinstruct
  9. preinstructed
  10. preinstructing
  11. preinstruction

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Adapted from Wiktionary: preinstalling (page history and authors); preinstall (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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