Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

preprocess

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.18 in modern English

Syllables: pre-pro-cess
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To process in advance.

Example Sentences

"If the desired result is to perform the smallest possible rotation between each pair of two orientations, you can preprocess the quaternions to achieve this."
"In pattern recognition we can divide an entire task into three phases: data acquisition, data preprocessing, and decision classification."
"To obtain the same performance benefits of traditional OLAP systems, a UDM uses preprocessed aggregates."

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 process English preprocess From pre- + process.

Inflected Forms

preprocesses (present, singular) preprocessing (participle, present) preprocessed (participle, past) preprocessed (past) pre-process (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

postmodify premodify reprocess

Antonyms

postprocess

Questions

What does preprocess mean?: To process in advance.
Where does preprocess 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 process English preprocess From pre- + process.

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