prefilter

English

Alternative forms

• pre-filter

Etymology

From pre- +‎ filter.

Verb

prefilter (third-person singular simple present prefilters, present participle prefiltering, simple past and past participle prefiltered)

1. (transitive) To filter in advance.

   The prefiltered data was fed to a computer program for analysis.

   • 2020 June 1, Josh Taylor, “Australian media companies face defamation liability for comments on Facebook after court dismisses appeal”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Facebook does not allow for pre-moderation of comments on pages and comments cannot be turned off, however NSW supreme court justice Stephen Rothman had argued that the media companies could have used a word filter using extremely common words to pre-filter the majority of comments to only be visible to the page owner and that user and their friends.

Noun

prefilter (plural prefilters)

1. A filter used in advance.