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- noun An early
sign orindication of something; aforeshadowing .
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If a large discrepancy in energy levels exists over a given time frame, then the frame is not watermarked, to avoid audible time-dispersion of artifacts due to spectral modifications which are similar to "pre-echo" effects in audio coding.
Archive 2007-09-01 Martyn Daniels 2007
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If a large discrepancy in energy levels exists over a given time frame, then the frame is not watermarked, to avoid audible time-dispersion of artifacts due to spectral modifications which are similar to "pre-echo" effects in audio coding.
Another Nail in DRM? Martyn Daniels 2007
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Another is elimination of "pre-echo," in which sound compression artifacts arrive before the actual sound is supposed to arrive.
The Download Blog: Software tips, news, and opinions from Download.com editors Stephen Shankland 2011
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The Globes, decided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, haven't always provided an accurate pre-echo of the Oscars.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Soft and dreamy, a perfect pre-echo of the song's exquisitely swooning melancholy, the guitar lead-in to
The Guardian World News Richard Williams 2011
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What's more, the West Wing had the Republicans choose between a Christian preacher - a pre-echo of
GreenCine Daily 2009
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What's more, the West Wing had the Republicans choose between a Christian preacher - a pre-echo of
GreenCine Daily 2009
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And yet science fiction or the imagination of science fiction writers and movie makers seem to pre-echo our real technological achievements or nightmares.
Screen Rant 2009
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Claude epitomises how disastrous it is for a lover to see the other side of the question, and to remind himself of the advantages of not being in love: "Yet, at the worst of the worst, books and a chamber remain", a line which is an eerie pre-echo of Larkin's renunciatory "Poetry of Departures": "Books; china; a life / Reprehensibly perfect."
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2009
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(We see a pre-echo of this in communications - half the earth's population now has cell phones, because it's no longer necessary to build the expensive wired infrastructure for universal phone service.)
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