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predefined en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

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 defined English predefined From pre- + defined.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Having been defined or established previously.
   • These new features are charizing, stringization, token concatenation, string concatenation, trigraph replacement, and predefined macros. 1993, Mark Andrews, Visual C++ Object-oriented Programming, page 186:
   • The cell / DNA mixtures were nucleoporated in 1 cm transfection cuvettes according to a predefined program on the Nucleofactor. 2015 August 15, “Spatial and Temporal Control of Cavitation Allows High In Vitro Transfection Efficiency in the Absence of Transfection Reagents or Contrast Agents”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

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Hyponyms

defined

Translations (8)

de voreingestellt (having been defined previously) · fr prédéfini (having been defined previously) · de vorgegeben (having been defined previously) · it predefinito (having been defined previously) · nl voorgedefinieerd (having been defined previously) · de vordefiniert (having been defined previously) · fi ennalta määrätty (having been defined previously) · bg предопределе́н (having been defined previously)

predefined en · VERB · etymology 2

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of predefine
   form of predefine

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