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prestack

prestack adjective: before stacking, in the context of seismic migration.

Adjective

prestack (not comparable)

  1. Before stacking, in the context of seismic migration.

Noun

prestack (plural prestacks)

  1. The category c is called a prestack over a category C with a Grothendieck topology if it is fibered over C and for any object U of C and objects x, y of c with image U, the functor from objects over U to sets taking F:V→U to Hom(F*x,F*y) is a sheaf.

Forms of prestack

pluralprestacks

Origin of prestack

From pre- + stack.

Questions about prestack

What does prestack mean?
Prestack means before stacking, in the context of seismic migration.
What part of speech is prestack?
Prestack can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near prestack in the dictionary

  1. prestability
  2. prestabilization
  3. prestabilizations
  4. prestabilize
  5. prestable
  6. prestack
  7. prestacked
  8. prestacks
  9. Prestage
  10. Prestages
  11. prestained

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