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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Something printed and often distributed in partial or preliminary form in advance of official publication.
  • transitive verb To print in advance.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun That which is printed in advance; an early issue, as of a paper that is to be published in a journal or as one of a series.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A preliminary form of a scientific paper that has not yet been published in a journal.
  • verb To print in advance.

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Examples

  • Steve, the side bar covers the figure xx portion of interest btw, at least according to the preprint, that is the top panel of Figure 4.

    Rutherford 2005 and the Divergence Problem « Climate Audit 2006

  • Incidentally, if Annan et al did mock up a "preprint" of their McLean rebuttal ahead of acceptance, then I think that's pretty naff practice.

    McLean, de Freitas and Carter throw Soon and Baliunas under the bus EliRabett 2010

  • I found that the arXiv an online archive of mostly physics "preprint" articles has sections for popular physics and for physics and society.

    Hollywood physics x00c5;ka 2007

  • I found that the arXiv an online archive of mostly physics "preprint" articles has sections for popular physics and for physics and society.

    Archive 2007-07-01 x00c5;ka 2007

  • It was a "preprint" of the article which is to appear in the St. Louis Federal Reserve

    Recent Commentaries | Safehaven.com 2010

  • For some corners of science, this "preprint" culture is faster than the traditional refereed journal approach, in which results are sent to journals, who choose appropriate but anonymous experts to sign off the veracity or merit of the work.

    BBC News - Home 2010

  • He should have, even for what we mathematics types call a "preprint," had an appropriate footnote to his source.

    Inside Higher Ed 2009

  • They post early drafts of papers online in "preprint" archives.

    University of Toronto -- News@UofT 2009

  • "preprint" only a week before an FOMC meeting unless there was already some fairly in-depth discussion about it going on around Fed circles (if there wasn't before, there surely is now!).

    Recent Commentaries | Safehaven.com 2010

  • Colt McCoy & Sam Bradford signed preprint 8×10 photo

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1074 2009

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  • See also Wikipedia's article, which gives some cultural context.

    June 23, 2011