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PRECEDING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Existing or coming before
Classified under:
Similar:
above (appearing earlier in the same text)
above-mentioned; above-named (mentioned or named earlier in the same text)
foregoing (especially of writing or speech; going before)
introductory; prefatorial; prefatory (serving as an introduction or preface)
precedent (preceding in time, order, or significance)
premedical (preceding and preparing for the study of medicine)
preparative; preparatory; propaedeutic (preceding and preparing for something)
old; previous (just preceding something else in time or order)
Also:
antecedent (preceding in time or order)
Attribute:
timing (the time when something happens)
temporal relation (a relation involving time)
Antonym:
succeeding (coming after or following)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office
Example:
a retiring member of the board
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
outgoing (leaving a place or a position)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb precede
Context examples:
Twelve months after diagnosis, patients assessed their GP’s empathy and their experiences of diabetes care over the preceding year using the consultation and relational empathy (CARE) questionnaire.
(Patients with an ‘empathic’ GP at reduced risk of early death, University of Cambridge)
The World Meteorological Organization reports 2017 is on track to be among the three hottest years on record, just behind the two preceding years.
(World Meteorological Org.: Arctic Warming Appears Irreversible, VOA)
March 8 is likely to be a dazzling day, and being that it falls on a Sunday, you will feel the sparkling effects over the preceding day, Saturday, March 7.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and ran thus: (...)
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Besides, the tips of two of her fingers had been left in the cutting machine at the paper-box factory the preceding winter.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Some members of the subgroup of the human CXC-Chemokines are defined by the conserved ELR sequence motif (glutamic acid-leucine-arginine) immediately preceding the first cysteine residue near the amino-terminal end.
(Alpha Chemokine, NCI Thesaurus)
The completion of all pre-conditions and preceding steps (based on sequence number) indicates that an activity is "ready for execution" according to the definition above.
(Defined Composition Relationship Pause Quantity, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
G2 Phase Arrest consists of interference with, or restraint of, activities that regulate the cellular capacity to transit the cell cycle phase preceding mitosis (Gap 2 phase).
(Negative Regulation of G2 Phase, NCI Thesaurus)
A natural number following 999999 and preceding 1000001 and the quantity that it denotes: one thousand thousands.
(Million, NCI Thesaurus)
The P wave morphology of these complexes is often different from a sinus P wave and the RR intervals preceding these complexes is also shorter than those of the regular beats.
(Atrial Premature Complex by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
