Prefilter
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Prefilter is a verb meaning (transitive) To filter in advance.
Meaning
(transitive) To filter in advance.
More Meanings
- A filter used in advance.
Example Sentences
The prefiltered data was fed to a computer program for analysis.
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.
Word Forms
- prefilters
- prefiltering
- prefiltered
- pre-filter
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include preselect, prescreen, prefile, prefine, presift, prefit.
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