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prerun

prerun noun: the act of running something in advance.

Noun

prerun (plural preruns)

  1. The act of running something in advance.
    • several preruns of an application to collect the execution times2012, Albert Y. Zomaya, Young Choon Lee, Energy Efficient Distributed Computing Systems, page 66
    • The digital print is also used for test runs and preruns.2012, Kaj Johansson, Peter Lundberg, Robert Ryberg, A Guide to Graphic Print Production, page 295

Verb

prerun (third-person singular simple present preruns, present participle prerunning, simple past preran, past participle prerun)

  1. (transitive) To run in advance.

Forms of prerun

Noun
pluralpreruns
Verb
third-person singular presentpreruns
present participleprerunning
pastpreran
past participleprerun

Origin of prerun

From pre- + run.

Questions about prerun

What does prerun mean?
Prerun means the act of running something in advance.
What part of speech is prerun?
Prerun can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of prerun?
The plural of prerun is preruns.

Words near prerun in the dictionary

  1. preroutines
  2. prerouting
  3. prerubral
  4. preruminant
  5. preruminants
  6. prerun
  7. prerunning
  8. preruns
  9. pres
  10. pres't
  11. pres.

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