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prelocated

prelocated is the simple past and past participle of prelocate.

Meaning of prelocate

Verb

prelocate (third-person singular simple present prelocates, present participle prelocating, simple past and past participle prelocated)

  1. (transitive) To locate in advance.
    • Manufactured strain gage rosettes are now being used to prelocate the gages with respect to the proposed hole center.1967, Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.), Annual Report, page 82

Adjective

prelocated (not comparable)

  1. located in advance

Origin of prelocated

From pre- + located.

Questions about prelocated

What does prelocated mean?
Prelocated means located in advance.
What is prelocated the simple past and past participle of?
Prelocated is the simple past and past participle of prelocate.
What part of speech is prelocated?
Prelocated is an adjective.

Words near prelocated in the dictionary

  1. prelocalization
  2. prelocalizations
  3. prelocalize
  4. prelocalized
  5. prelocate
  6. prelocated
  7. prelocates
  8. prelocating
  9. prelockdown
  10. prelockout
  11. prelocution

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prelocated (page history and authors); prelocate (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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