Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

preprocessor

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.05 in modern English

Syllables: pre-proces-sor
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

program that processes its input data to produce output that is used as input to another program

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 processor English preprocessor From pre- + processor.

Inflected Forms

preprocessors (plural)

Questions

What does preprocessor mean?: program that processes its input data to produce output that is used as input to another program
Where does preprocessor 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 processor English preprocessor From pre- + processor.

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