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Meaning of precurse | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2
/pɹɪˈkɜɹs/

Definitions

To forerun or precede.

transitive

Examples

“It is true that competition in capitalism precurses new economic order.”
“As one example, precursing a strain of S. ambofaciens with an aglycone of tylosin while blocking production of spiramycin with cerulenin yielded hybrid macrolides named chimeramycins, which combined structural elements of both tylosin and spiramycin [152].”
“The only way this can be intelligible is by conceiving that school maths competence ‘precurses’ (Gee, 2001) university maths competence, which ‘precurses’ real maths adeptness.[…]After all, this idea of the interpenetration of symbolic competence is built into Bernstein's explanation of how the middle-class home code precurses its young into the school code better than does the working-class home code.”
“I will use the Priscilla event as a representative example of a thermally precursed blast wave from a nuclear detonation.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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