ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Precomposed

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Precomposed is an adjective meaning Composed in advance.

Meaning

Composed in advance.

More Meanings

  1. simple past and past participle of precompose
  2. (computing) Describing a character that can also be represented an equivalent string of other characters (typically a letter and a diacritical mark).

Example Sentences

For example, the middle letter of naïve could be represented using the combining character approach by U+0069 U+0308, or as a single, precomposed unit using the already prepared character U+00EF. Around 500 precomposed Latin letters, for instance, in the Unicode standard are superfluous, in that they can be represented using combining character sequences.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include precompositional, preconstructed, precombined, precrafted, preadded, premodulated.

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