Definition of Preprocess

1. Verb. (computing) To process in advance. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Preprocess

1. [v -ED, -ING, -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Preprocess

prepremiere
preprepare
preprepared
prepresidential
prepress
preprice
prepriced
preprices
prepricing
preprimaries
preprimary
preprint
preprinted
preprinting
preprints
preprocess (current term)
preprocessed
preprocesses
preprocessing
preprocessor
preprocessors
preproduction
preproductions
preprofessional
preprofessionalism
preprofessionals
preprogram
preprogramed
preprograming
preprogrammed

Literary usage of Preprocess

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Design and Analysis of Integrated Manufacturing Systems by W. Dale Compton (1988)
"Once the preliminary part drawing has been sent to the manufacturing engineer, the activities of preprocess planning, including cost estimation and ..."

2. First Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-1): Proceedings by D. K. Harman (1995)
"PART OF SPEECH TAGGER One way of dealing with lexical ambiguity is to use a tagger to preprocess the input marking each word with a tags that indicates its ..."

3. Overview of the Third Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-3) edited by D. K. Harmon (1996)
"In particular, the BBN's part-of-speech tagger, which we use to preprocess the input before parsing, has been redesigned in time for TREC-3 so that it now ..."

4. Sas/stat 9.1 User's Guide by SAS Institute, Virginia Clark (2004)
"Variable expansions preprocess the specified variables, replacing them with more variables. Nonoptimal transformations preprocess the specified variables, ..."

5. SAS/OR(R) 9.1.2 User's Guide:: Mathematical Programming by SAS Institute, SAS Publishing, Trevor Kearney, Virginia Clark, Donna Sawyer (2004)
"... the preprocess= option, you can apply the preprocessing techniques to pre-solve and then solve the preceding mixed-integer program: proc ip preprocess=l ..."

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