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English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? English preprocessor
From pre- + processor.
Noun
preprocessor (plural preprocessors)
- (computing) program that processes its input data to produce output that is used as input to another program
Translations
program that processes input data before it is used by another program