preprocess

verb

pre·pro·cess (ˌ)prē-ˈprä-ˌses

-ˈprō-,

-səs

preprocessed; preprocessing; preprocesses

transitive verb

: to do preliminary processing of (something, such as data)

preprocessor

(ˌ)prē-ˈprä-ˌse-sər

-ˈprō-;

-sə-sər

-ˌsȯr

noun

Examples of preprocess in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Being able to preprocess a portion of the absentee ballots on Sunday and Monday to prepare them for counting helped speed up the tabulations this year, Baxter said. —

Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 9 Nov. 2022 Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clarklake, in the wake of the 2020 election, pointed to Florida — where election officials have weeks to preprocess absentee ballots — as a model for Michigan. —

Detroit Free Press, 29 Sep. 2022 For one, Funding Circle preprocessed thousands of loans before the second round opened up, and Metcalf says some 61% of those PPP applications were for $50,000 and under (the average loan size BlueVine has processed is also $50,000). —

Anne Sraders, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2020 Out of 100 recordings of test words, for two of them preprocessing returned an error. —

Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2018

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