English

Verb

preprocess ‎(third-person singular simple present preprocesses, present participle preprocessing, simple past and past participle preprocessed)

1. (computing) To process in advance.
   • 2001, Mark A DeLoura, Game Programming Gems 2

     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.

   • 2006, Brian Larson, Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2005

     To obtain the same performance benefits of traditional OLAP systems, a UDM uses preprocessed aggregates.