Definition of "preprocess" []

• To perform preliminary processing on (data, for example). (verb-transitive)

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• "And what you're finding is that IPCC -- we're talking about 2,500 to 3,000 of the world's leading scientists going through a very strict scientific preprocess, Peer review papers, the vetting that's involved in science, and the natural conservative statements of science, the reticence of science to say anything truly definitive."
• "He con - trolled more than raw data now; if he could master them, the continent's computers could process this avalanche, much the way parts of the human brain preprocess their input."
• "We are technically taxed 2x's, once in the preprocess, as taxpayers, and again at the pump."