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precover

noun

Etymology

From pre- + discover.

  1. derived from cooperiō — “to cover completely”
  2. derived from coperire
  3. derived from covrir
  4. inherited from coveren
  5. prefixed as precover — “pre + cover”

Definitions

  1. A generalization of a cover in which the kernel may contain a non-zero pure subgroup.

  2. Something that occurs in preparation for a covering.

    • Zineb did not give good control as a precover spray but as a cover spray it gave excellent control of late and storage scab.
    • Excellent control of a storage rot of apples, caused by Gloeosporium album, was obtained with an orchard spraying program of captan in the precover followed by 3 regular and 2 late cover sprays of captan or a mixture of captan and zineb.

  3. To find an older image of an object in archived images after it has been discovered.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for precover. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA