preprocess

Etymology

pre- +‎ process

Verb

preprocess (third-person singular simple present preprocesses, present participle preprocessing, simple past and past participle preprocessed)

1. (computing) To process in advance.
   • 2001, Mark A. DeLoura, editor, Game Programming Gems 2‎, Charles River Media, Inc., →ISBN:

     If the desired result is to perform the smallest possible rotation between each pair of two orientations, you can preprocess the quaternions to achieve this.

   • 2002, Sing-Tze Bow, editor, Pattern Recognition and Image Preprocessing‎, Marcel Dekker, Inc., →ISBN:

     In pattern recognition we can divide an entire task into three phases: data acquistion, data preprocessing, and decision classification.

   • 2006, Brian Larson, Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, →ISBN:

     To obtain the same performance benefits of traditional OLAP systems, a UDM uses preprocessed aggregates.

Alternative forms

• pre-process

Antonyms

• postprocess