preprocessing

The act of processing beforehand.

Noun

  1. The act of processing beforehand.
    • In pattern recognition we can divide an entire task into three phases: data acquisition, data preprocessing, and decision classification. - 2002, Sing-Tze Bow, editor, Pattern Recognition and Image Preprocessing, Marcel...
    • Despite extensive data cleaning and preprocessing, it was not possible to completely eliminate all noise in such a large corpus. - 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English...
  2. The material formed by a preprocess.

Forms

preprocessings pre-processing

Antonyms

postprocessing

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of preprocess