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Etymology

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pre- +‎ transmit

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pretransmit (third-person singular simple present pretransmits, present participle pretransmitting, simple past and past participle pretransmitted)

  1. (transitive) To transmit in advance.
    • 2010, Ivan Djordjevic, William Ryan, Bane Vasic, Coding for Optical Channels, page 228:
      To estimate the channel distortion [] we need to pretransmit the training sequence.