Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

prerelax

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pre-re-lax
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To relax beforehand.

Example Sentences

"Anyway, systematic investigations of the diffusion in nanocrystal line materials, which have been prerelaxed to different extents, very likely will help to clarify questions on this subject matter in a similar way as it was possible for the amorphous alloys."
"The tissue is first prerelaxed with nitroprusside and response allowed to stabilize."
"heat setting: a process to prerelax a spring in order to improve stress-relaxation resistance in service."
"To prevent paradoxic loss of wrinkles with strong contraction, we partially prerelaxed the pericytes with SNP, a source of nitric oxide."

Etymology

From pre- + relax.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pre

Inflected Forms

prerelaxes (present, singular) prerelaxing (participle, present) prerelaxed (participle, past) prerelaxed (past)

Questions

What does prerelax mean?: To relax beforehand.
Where does prerelax come from?: From pre- + relax.

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