preprint

[ noun pree-print; verb pree-print ]

noun

1. an advance printing, printing, usually of a portion of a book or of an article in a periodical.

verb (used with object)

1. to print for future use.
2. to print a preprint.

Word History and Origins

Origin of preprint¹

First recorded in 1885–90; pre- + print

Example Sentences

The team described the system in a preprint on Monday, and it has been accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics.

From Popular-Science

The fact that people are willing to put their data out on preprint servers.

From Science News

The trial was described in a preprint paper written by a team led by Cerebras’s Michael James and NETL’s Dirk Van Essendelft and presented at the supercomputing conference SC20 this week.

From Singularity Hub 

Launched as a stand-alone website where researchers could link a study to the code that went with it, this year Papers with Code started a collaboration with arXiv, a popular preprint server.

From MIT Technology Review

Both of these new preprints reprocessed the data from scratch, without using Greaves’s method.

From MIT Technology Review

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