Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

predefined

/pɹˌidɪfˈaɪnd/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.65 in modern English

Syllables: pre-de-fined
IPA: /pɹˌidɪfˈaɪnd/

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having been defined or established previously.

verb

simple past and past participle of predefine

Example Sentences

"These new features are charizing, stringization, token concatenation, string concatenation, trigraph replacement, and predefined macros."
"The cell / DNA mixtures were nucleoporated in 1 cm transfection cuvettes according to a predefined program on the Nucleofactor."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English defined English predefined From pre- + defined.

Inflected Forms

pre-defined (alternative)

Phrases

predefined function

Rhymes With

find kind mind behind designed signed wind combined defined blind assigned remind

Questions

How do you pronounce predefined?: The recorded pronunciation is /pɹˌidɪfˈaɪnd/.
What does predefined mean?: Having been defined or established previously.
Where does predefined come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English defined English predefined From pre- + defined.

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