precurse

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.”

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