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1939 E. A. J. Johnson Econ. Hist. Mod. Eng. ii. 53 The outbreak of the war coincided precisely with the invention of a most important cost-reducing machine for pre-processing raw cotton, Whitney's saw gin.

1954 Incorporated Statistician 5 47 This [unease] may be because of the difficulties associated with basic data—uncertainty about the degree to which apparently random data have in fact been unofficially pre-processed.

1963 Managem. Sci. 10 65 The initial phase of the program serves to ‘preprocess’ the customer data.

1999 Operations Res. 47 120/2 The result is important since in essence the PFSL scheme preprocesses the problem graph before applying the ATC heuristic.

1956 Jrnl. Marketing 21 44/2 For some products (for example goods made from hardwoods and copper), there is virtually no preprocessing, since they move almost immediately from extraction to processing.

1966 G. H. Ball & D. J. Hall in Proc. IFIP Congr. 1965 II. 329/1 (title) ISODATA—a self-organizing computer program for the design of pattern recognition preprocessing.

1993 Sci. Amer. Aug. 37/1 The extra costs involved are those related to the preprocessing of the plutonium and its introduction into the melter.

2002 Dental Pract. 1 Apr. 21/3 The first filmless radiographic system for direct generated panoramic tamograms—plus automatic image preprocessing, patient related storage and archiving.