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Etymology

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pre- +‎ incorporate

Verb

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preincorporate (third-person singular simple present preincorporates, present participle preincorporating, simple past and past participle preincorporated)

  1. (transitive) To incorporate in advance.
    • 2013, W. C. Corning, Stanley C. Ratner, Chemistry of Learning: Invertebrate Research, page 191:
      We did have some success with uracil when we would preincorporate the uracil into a mutant of E. coli that had a uracil requirement and then feed this cellular content from E. coli.