preprint

[ noun pree-print; verb pree-print ]

noun

1. an advance printing, printing, usually of a portion of a book or of an article in a periodical.

verb (used with object)

1. to print for future use.
2. to print a preprint.

Word History and Origins

Origin of preprint¹

First recorded in 1885–90; pre- + print

Example Sentences

The company also asked the authors to release the manuscript on a preprint server, a website where scientists can post preliminary findings.

From Los Angeles Times

A 2023 preprint paper from researchers at Stanford, the University of Washington, and Trinity College found that patents for A.I. surveillance technology multiplied fivefold between the 1990s and the 2010s, and that there are now more than 23,000 patents for A.I. surveillance tools in the country.

From Slate

The findings were publicly released as a preprint — research that has not been peer reviewed — on the website of Drug Checking Los Angeles and have been submitted to medRxiv, a website where scientists share preliminary findings.

From Los Angeles Times

The company has also asked the authors to release the manuscript on a preprint server, a website where scientists can post preliminary findings.

From Los Angeles Times

And a recent study in preprint that has not yet been peer-reviewed finds that cow udders can also contain both types of receptors and so could potentially become a mixing vessel for bird and flu viruses.

From Salon

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