precorrect

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verb

To correct (remove systemic errors) before another operation

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Meanings

verbprecorrect (third-person singular simple present precorrects, present participle precorrecting, simple past and past participle precorrected)

present singular third person precorrects · participle present precorrecting · participle past precorrected · past precorrected

  1. To correct (remove systemic errors) before another operation

    Unlike [4], we used standardized data and did not precorrect the systematic effects from the data.

    2016 February 2, “Use of Wishart Prior and Simple Extensions for Sparse Precision Matrix Estimation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From pre- + correct.

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APA

precorrect. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/precorrect

MLA

“precorrect.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/precorrect. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “precorrect,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/precorrect.

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