preprocess

See also: pre-process

English

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Alternative forms

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pre-process

Etymology

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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 .

Verb

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preprocess (third-person singular simple present preprocesses , present participle preprocessing , simple past and past participle preprocessed )

(computing ) To process in advance.
Antonym: postprocess

Coordinate term: reprocess
- 2001, Mark A. DeLoura, editor, Game Programming Gems 2‎^[1], Charles River Media, Inc., →ISBN:
  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.
- 2002, Sing-Tze Bow, editor, Pattern Recognition and Image Preprocessing‎^[2], Marcel Dekker, Inc., →ISBN:
  In pattern recognition we can divide an entire task into three phases: data acquisition, data preprocessing, and decision classification.
- 2006, Brian Larson, Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, →ISBN:
  To obtain the same performance benefits of traditional OLAP systems, a UDM uses preprocessed aggregates.

Translations

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to process in advance

Chinese:
Mandarin: 预处理 (yùchǔlǐ)
Finnish: esikäsitellä
Hungarian: előfeldolgoz
Spanish: preprocesar
Vietnamese: tiền xử lý , xử lý tiền kỳ