prerun

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ run.

Noun

prerun (plural preruns)

1. The act of running something in advance.
   • 2012, Albert Y. Zomaya, Young Choon Lee, Energy Efficient Distributed Computing Systems, page 66:

     several preruns of an application to collect the execution times

   • 2012, Kaj Johansson, Peter Lundberg, Robert Ryberg, A Guide to Graphic Print Production, page 295:

     The digital print is also used for test runs and preruns.

Verb

prerun (third-person singular simple present preruns, present participle prerunning, simple past preran, past participle prerun)

1. (transitive) To run in advance.

Anagrams

• Pruner, pruner