Pre-preparation
noun
1.
a proceeding, measure, or provision by which one prepares for something:
preparations for a journey.
2.
any proceeding, experience, or the like considered as a mode of preparing for the future.
3.
an act of preparing.
4.
the state of being prepared.
5.
something prepared, manufactured, or compounded:
a special preparation for sunbathers.
6.
a specimen, as an animal body, prepared for scientific examination, dissection, etc.
7.
Music.
the preparing of a dissonance, by introducing the dissonant tone as a consonant tone in the preceding chord.
the tone so introduced.
8.
New Testament. the day before the Sabbath or a feast day.
9.
British. work done by students in preparation for class; homework.
10.
the Preparation, the introductory prayers of the Mass or other divine service.
noun
1.
the act or process of preparing
2.
the state of being prepared; readiness
3.
(often pl) a measure done in order to prepare for something; provision: to make preparations for something
4.
something that is prepared, esp a medicinal formulation
5.
(esp in a boarding school)
homework
the period reserved for this Usually shortened to prep
6.
(music)
the anticipation of a dissonance so that the note producing it in one chord is first heard in the preceding chord as a consonance
a note so employed
7.
(often capital) the preliminary prayers at Mass or divine service
preparation prep·a·ra·tion (prěp’ə-rā’shən)
n.
A substance, such as a medicine, prepared for a particular purpose.
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