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foresignal en · NOUN

From fore- + signal.

A signal made or given in advance; a foresign
- I later learn this fore-signal is called an aura, and that what I am experiencing is a form of epilepsy, a small 'focal' fit, affecting a speech centre. 2012, Tom Lubbock, Until Further Notice, I Am Alive:
- [...] they could be seen as portents or prognostications, looking forward to some earthly catastrophe, or as precursors of the latter days, foresignals of the end of the world. 2000, David Cressy, Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England:
- Sequential redundancy may be introduced into discrete-response tasks by varying the amount of information conveyed by a foresignal about the reaction signal that is to follow it. 1968, George Alexander Talland, Human aging and behavior: recent advances in research and theory:

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
foresignals	Number=Plur		lexicographic
fore-signal		alternative	lexicographic

From fore- + signal.

(rare, transitive) To signal ahead of time
- For even if he ends his history without discussing any particulars of Hegel's work, the Hegelian dialectic of history is the structuring principle behind the work as a whole and the logical element of necessity that foresignals the death of the old God. 1998, Roger F. Cook, By the Rivers of Babylon: Heinrich Heine's Late Songs and Reflections:

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
foresignalling	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	UK	lexicographic
foresignaled	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	US	lexicographic
foresignaled	Tense=Past	US	lexicographic
foresignaling	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	US	lexicographic
foresignalled	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	UK	lexicographic
foresignalled	Tense=Past	UK	lexicographic
foresignals	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
fore-signal		alternative	lexicographic