prefilter

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English

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Etymology

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From pre- +‎ filter.

Verb

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prefilter (third-person singular simple present prefilters, present participle prefiltering, simple past and past participle prefiltered)

  1. (transitive) To filter in advance.
    The prefiltered data was fed to a computer program for analysis.
    • 2020 June 1, Josh Taylor, “Australian media companies face defamation liability for comments on Facebook after court dismisses appeal”, in The Guardian[1]:
      Facebook does not allow for pre-moderation of comments on pages and comments cannot be turned off, however NSW supreme court justice Stephen Rothman had argued that the media companies could have used a word filter using extremely common words to pre-filter the majority of comments to only be visible to the page owner and that user and their friends.

Noun

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prefilter (plural prefilters)

  1. A filter used in advance.