preprocessing

/priːˈprɑsɛsɪŋ/
noun
  1. The act or process of preparing data or materials before the main processing or analysis.
    • The preprocessing step took longer than the actual analysis.
    • Image preprocessing includes resizing and color correction.
    • Preprocessing of the survey data removed incomplete responses.
verb
  1. Present participle of preprocess: performing preparation steps in advance.
    • He spent the morning preprocessing the text files for the database.
    • They are preprocessing the video footage to stabilize the frames.
    • The team is preprocessing the sensor readings before feeding them into the algorithm.
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