preprocess

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English process English preprocess From pre- + process.

1. To process in advance.

   “If the desired result is to perform the smallest possible rotation between each pair of two orientations, you can preprocess the quaternions to achieve this.”

   “In pattern recognition we can divide an entire task into three phases: data acquisition, data preprocessing, and decision classification.”