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preseed en · ADJ
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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 seed
English preseed
From pre- + seed.
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Before a seeding or seed stage of development.
There are many traditional sources of funding, but for new spin-off company creation, gaining access to early stage (angel, preseed, and seed) [...]
2006, Elliott C. Kulakowski, Lynne U. Chronister, Research Administration and Management, page 799:Increases in one experiment ranged from 10 to 200 times the preseed rainfall from the individual clouds, [....]
1972, John Gliedman, Terror from the Sky: North Viet-Nam's Dikes and the U. S. Bombing, page 71:The totality of the preseed culture is added into the final culture composed of the same medium.
2007, Sylvie Doublié, Macromolecular Crystallography Protocols, page 31:
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preseed en · NOUN
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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 seed
English preseed
From pre- + seed.
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A medium specially prepared for a seeding operation.
The preseed was incubated with mild agitation at 30 "C for 24 h.
1990, DE Steinmeyer, ML Shuler, “Continuous operation of a pressure-cycled membrane bioreactor”, in Biotechnology Progress:The preseed is then transferred aseptically to 20-liter seed tanks [....]
1988, Roman Saliwanchik, Protecting Biotechnology Inventions: A Guide for Scientists, page 157:
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preseed en · VERB
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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 seed
English preseed
From pre- + seed.
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To seed in advance.
Also included in the menu is the possibility to preseed the entire LSE matrix to any desired level, thus providing a base for many classes of experiment.
1982, Francis R. Pettit, Post-Digital Electronics, page 146:[…] I loaned them the valve that they used to seed the clouds or preseed them with liquid nitrate solution […]
Preseed plates by spreading approximately 108 phage each of λKH54 and λKH54h80.
2003, Peter E. Vaillancourt, E. Coli Gene Expression Protocols, page 245:If you haven't been able to preseed the filter with bacteria from another aquarium […]
1998, Joyce D. Wilkerson, Clownfishes: A Guide to Their Captive Care, Breeding & Natural History, page 93:Under this scheme, an outbreak of influenza in one year would preseed the population to give a pattern of latent infectives from which a subsequent outbreak would arise in a later year.
1986, Andrew David Cliff, Peter Haggett, J. K. Ord, Spatial Aspects of Influenza Epidemics, page 18:
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