English

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Etymology

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From pre- +‎ run.

Noun

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prerun (plural preruns)

  1. The act of running something in advance.
    • 2012, Albert Y. Zomaya, Young Choon Lee, Energy Efficient Distributed Computing Systems, page 66:
      several preruns of an application to collect the execution times
    • 2012, Kaj Johansson, Peter Lundberg, Robert Ryberg, A Guide to Graphic Print Production, page 295:
      The digital print is also used for test runs and preruns.

Verb

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prerun (third-person singular simple present preruns, present participle prerunning, simple past preran, past participle prerun)

  1. (transitive) To run in advance.

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