predefined

Having been defined or established previously.

Adjective

  1. Having been defined or established previously.
    • These new features are charizing, stringization, token concatenation, string concatenation, trigraph replacement, and predefined macros. - 1993, Mark Andrews, Visual C++ Object-oriented Programming, page 186:
    • The cell / DNA mixtures were nucleoporated in 1 cm transfection cuvettes according to a predefined program on the Nucleofactor. - 2015 August 15, “Spatial and Temporal Control of Cavitation Allows High In Vitro...

Origin

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 defined English predefined From pre- + defined.

Forms

pre-defined

Hyponyms

defined

Derived

predefined function

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of predefine

Forms

pre-defined