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English
Etymology
From pre- + filter.
Verb
prefilter (third-person singular simple present prefilters, present participle prefiltering, simple past and past participle prefiltered)
- (transitive) To filter in advance.
The prefiltered data was fed to a computer program for analysis.
2020 June 1, Josh Taylor, “Australian media companies face defamation liability for comments on Facebook after court dismisses appeal”, in The Guardian: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 using extremely common words to pre-filter the majority of comments to only be visible to the page owner and that user and their friends.
Noun
prefilter (plural prefilters)
- A filter used in advance.