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Definition of Prelim

1. Noun. A minor match preceding the main event.

2. Noun. An examination taken by graduate students to determine their fitness to continue.

Definition of Prelim

1. Adjective. preliminary ¹

2. Noun. (informal) Something preliminary, such as a trial, report, race, etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Prelim

1. a minor match preceding the main event [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prelim

prelectors prelects prelegal prelegislation prelegislative prelibation prelibations preliberal preliberation prelicensing

prelife prelight prelighted prelighting prelights prelim (current term) preliminaries preliminarily preliminarily enjoin preliminarily enjoined

preliminarily enjoining preliminarily enjoins preliminary preliminary exam preliminary examination preliminary injunction preliminary injunctions preliminary prospectus preliminatory prelimit

Literary usage of Prelim

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

1. History of the Problems of Philosophy by Paul Janet, Gabriel Séailles (1902)
"... prim., Disc, prelim.). The faculty of thought is inborn in us, says de Bonald, but without the faculty of speech it is nothing. ..."

2. North American Geology and Palæontology for the Use of Amateurs, Students by Samuel Almond Miller (1889)
"380, Chemung Gr. elliptica, Hall, 1870, prelim. Notice Lam. Shells, p. 53, and Pal. ... prelim. Notice Lam. Shells, p. 57, and Pal. NY, vol. 5, p. 372, Ham. ..."

3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1891)
"... made at the hearing of the motion to any omission or irregularity in the proceedings prelim- practice the motion proceeds independent of the judgment, ..."

4. Electrical Engineering in Theory and Practice: In Theory and Practice by George Dudley Aspinall Parr (1906)
"(prelim. 1901.) 20. If the resistance of u cubic inch of copper is 0'66 microhm ... (prelim. 1901.) 21 An electric glow lamp taking 0-5 ampere when supplied ..."

5. Electrical Engineering in Theory and Practice: In Theory and Practice by George Dudley Aspinall Parr (1906)
"(prelim. 1901.) 20. If the resistance of a cubic inch of copper is 0'66 microhm, and the diameter of each of a pair of wires be 0'064 inch, what length of ..."

6. The Complete Arithmetic: Oral and Written by Daniel W. Fish (1875)
"... prelim i MARY DEFINITIONS ARTICLE. Arithmetic is the Science of Num- •^J- bers, and the Art of Computation. As a science, Arithmetic treats of the ..."

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