Word.ws English Dictionary

prescan

prescan verb: to scan in advance.

Verb

prescan (third-person singular simple present prescans, present participle prescanning, simple past and past participle prescanned)

  1. (transitive) To scan in advance.

Forms of prescan

third-person singular presentprescans
present participleprescanning
past participleprescanned
pastprescanned

Origin of prescan

From pre- + scan.

Questions about prescan

What does prescan mean?
Prescan means to scan in advance.
What part of speech is prescan?
Prescan is a verb.
What is the past tense of prescan?
The past tense of prescan is prescanned.

Words near prescan in the dictionary

  1. prescaled
  2. prescaler
  3. prescalers
  4. prescales
  5. prescaling
  6. prescan
  7. prescandal
  8. prescanned
  9. prescanning
  10. prescans
  11. prescapula

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: prescan (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “prescan.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/prescan. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.