Precurse
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /pɹɪˈkɜɹs/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Precurse is a verb meaning (transitive) To forerun or precede.
Meaning
(transitive) To forerun or precede.
More Meanings
- (archaic) A prediction, a prognostication.
Example Sentences
It is true that competition in capitalism precurses new economic order.
I will use the Priscilla event as a representative example of a thermally precursed blast wave from a nuclear detonation.
And even the like precurse of fierce events, As harbingers preceding still the fates And prologue to the omen coming on, Have heaven and earth together demonstrated Unto our climatures and countrymen. (Shakespeare)
As one example, precursing a strain of S. ambofaciens with an aglycone of tylosin while blocking production of spiramycin with cerulenin yielded hybrid macrolides named chimeramycins, which combined structural elements of both tylosin and spiramycin [152].
Word Forms
- precurses
- precursing
- precursed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include precourse, forerun, precede, predecess, forecome, prevent.
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