prealignment

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noun

An alignment prior to some other operation.

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Meanings

nounprealignment (countable and uncountable, plural prealignments)

plural prealignments

  1. countableuncountableAn alignment prior to some other operation.

    Nearly 1.8 million reads were removed during the prealignment steps of linker removal, QC and collapsing reads.

    2015 November 17, “miRge - A Multiplexed Method of Processing Small RNA-Seq Data to Determine MicroRNA Entropy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
adjectiveprealignment (not comparable)
  1. not comparablePrior to an alignment.

Origin

From pre- + alignment.

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APA

prealignment. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prealignment

MLA

“prealignment.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prealignment. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prealignment,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prealignment.

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