prepenultimate
prepenultimate adjective: synonym of antepenultimate.
Adjective
prepenultimate (comparative more prepenultimate, superlative most prepenultimate)
- Synonym of antepenultimate.
- Inversion at each additional step by the attack of the monomer's electron pair insures that when carbon 3 becomes part of the prepenultimate unit and carbon 1 becomes part of the penultimate unit they will have the same configurations.1967, Norman L. Allinger, Ernest Ludwig Eliel, Topics in Stereochemistry, volume 2, John Wiley & Sons, page 146
- The prepenultimate row reports overall statistics for ES engagements, which may be compared with CG engagements in the first row. The penultimate row provides chi-square tests of the difference between ES and CG engagements. The last row provides summary statistics for the entire sample, comprising...2015 Dec, Dimson, Elroy, Karakaş, Oğuzhan, Xi Li, “Active Ownership.”, in Review of Financial Studies, volume 28, number 12, page 3239
- Synonyms:
- antepenultimate
Synonyms of prepenultimate
Forms of prepenultimate
| comparative | more prepenultimate |
|---|---|
| superlative | most prepenultimate |
Origin of prepenultimate
From pre- + penultimate.
Questions about prepenultimate
- What does prepenultimate mean?
- Prepenultimate means synonym of antepenultimate.
- What part of speech is prepenultimate?
- Prepenultimate is an adjective.
Words near prepenultimate in the dictionary
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