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prepenultimate en · ADJ

Etymology

From pre- + penultimate.

Meanings

1. Synonym of antepenultimate.
   • The prepenultimate row reports overall statistics for ES engagements, which may be compared with CG engagements in the first row. The penultimate row provides chi-square tests of the difference between ES and CG engagements. The last row provides summary statistics for the entire sample, comprising both CG and ES engagements. 2015 Dec, Dimson, Elroy, Karakaş, Oğuzhan, Xi Li, “Active Ownership.”, in Review of Financial Studies, volume 28, number 12, page 3239:
   • Inversion at each additional step by the attack of the monomer's electron pair insures that when carbon 3 becomes part of the prepenultimate unit and carbon 1 becomes part of the penultimate unit they will have the same configurations. 1967, Norman L. Allinger, Ernest Ludwig Eliel, Topics in Stereochemistry, volume 2, John Wiley & Sons, page 146:

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Synonyms

antepenultimate