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nounpre-echo (countable and uncountable, plural pre-echos or pre-echoes)
plural pre-echos · plural pre-echoes
- countableAn early sign or indication of something; a foreshadowing.
From the earliest days Christians had searched the Tanakh in their anxiety to find pre-echoes of their own passionate convictions about the God-Man Jesus Christ.
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 140 - countableuncountablecomputingA digital audio compression artifact where a (typically percussive) sound is heard before it should occur.
Synonyms: forward echo
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nounA digital audio compression artifact where a (typically percussive) sound is heard before it should occur.
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