predefined

English

Alternative forms

• pre-defined

Etymology 1

From pre- +‎ defined.

Adjective

predefined (not comparable)

1. Having been defined or established previously.
   • 1993, Mark Andrews, Visual C++ Object-oriented Programming, page 186:

     These new features are charizing, stringization, token concatenation, string concatenation, trigraph replacement, and predefined macros.

   • 2015 August 15, “Spatial and Temporal Control of Cavitation Allows High In Vitro Transfection Efficiency in the Absence of Transfection Reagents or Contrast Agents”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     The cell / DNA mixtures were nucleoporated in 1 cm transfection cuvettes according to a predefined program on the Nucleofactor.

Hyponyms

• defined

Derived terms

• predefined function

Translations

having been defined previously

Bulgarian: предопределе́н (bg) (predopredelén) Dutch: voorgedefinieerd Finnish: ennalta määrätty French: prédéfini (fr) German: vordefiniert, voreingestellt, vorgegeben (de) Italian: predefinito (it)

Etymology 2

Verb

predefined

1. simple past and past participle of predefine