preprocessor

preprocessor

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English processor
English preprocessor

    From pre- + processor.

    Noun

    preprocessor (plural preprocessors)

    1. (computing) program that processes its input data to produce output that is used as input to another program

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