foresignal

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English

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Etymology

From fore- +‎ signal.

Noun

foresignal (plural foresignals)

  1. A signal made or given in advance; a foresign
    • 1968, George Alexander Talland, Human aging and behavior: recent advances in research and theory:
      Sequential redundancy may be introduced into discrete-response tasks by varying the amount of information conveyed by a foresignal about the reaction signal that is to follow it.
    • 2000, David Cressy, Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England:
      they could be seen as portents or prognostications, looking forward to some earthly catastrophe, or as precursors of the latter days, foresignals of the end of the world.
    • 2012, Tom Lubbock, Until Further Notice, I Am Alive:
      I later learn this fore-signal is called an aura, and that what I am experiencing is a form of epilepsy, a small 'focal' fit, affecting a speech centre.

Verb

foresignal (third-person singular simple present foresignals, present participle foresignaling or foresignalling, simple past and past participle foresignaled or foresignalled)

  1. (transitive, rare) To signal ahead of time
    • 1998, Roger F. Cook, By the Rivers of Babylon: Heinrich Heine's Late Songs and Reflections:
      For even if he ends his history without discussing any particulars of Hegel's work, the Hegelian dialectic of history is the structuring principle behind the work as a whole and the logical element of necessity that foresignals the death of the old God.
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