preshift

1. not comparableBefore a shift (in various senses).

   The factory workers in Plant 2 would stop at Uncle Nancy’s for preshift pick-me-ups, and the executives at Maytag headquarters down the street would come for lunch.

   2007 October 7, Dan Barry, “Politicians, and a Town in Flux, Come Calling”, in New York Times

present singular third person preshifts · participle present preshifting · participle past preshifted · past preshifted

1. transitiveTo shift in advance.

   We preshifted the game sprites to avoid having to redraw them at different positions during gameplay.

plural preshifts

1. computer graphicsA shift performed in advance.

   […] and the preshifts required to move the rectangle up one, right two or up one, left two.

   1983, Ken Williams, Bob Kernaghan, Lisa Kernaghan, Apple II Computer Graphics, page 156