an advance printing, usually of a portion of a book or of an article in a periodical
transitive verb
2.
to print for future use
3.
to print a preprint
Word origin
[1885–90; pre- + print]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: lineup, retread, roller coaster, scrum, seminarpre- is a prefix occurring originally in loanwords from Latin, where it meant “before”(preclude; prevent); applied freely as a prefix, with the meanings “prior to,” “in advance of,” “early,”“beforehand,” “before,” “in front of,” and with other figurative meanings (preschool; prewar; prepay: preoral; prefrontal)
Examples of 'preprint' in a sentence
preprint
So the preprint could not simply be dismissed as the work of a crank.
The Times Literary Supplement (2017)
For example, one common proposal is to add (suitably moderated) comment pages to preprint servers.