prefilter

A filter used in advance.

Noun

  1. A filter used in advance.

Origin

From pre- + filter.

Forms

prefilters pre-filter

Verb

  1. To filter in advance.
    • 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...

Forms

prefilters prefiltering prefiltered pre-filter