Presignal
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A signal that occurs before some occurrence, as a warning or to trigger an automatic preparation.
"A presignal gets the moving cars back of the intersection off to the same flying start as the stopped lead vehicles. Von Stein has also used presignals in Dusseldorf and in other parts of Germany to create "time islands" for streetcars that must stop where there is no room for loading islands."
- 1 Before a signal. not-comparable
"Another experiment showed that presignal information about which of two frequencies was to be presented aids detection considerably, but such information does not entirely eliminate the decrement."
Example
More examples"Another experiment showed that presignal information about which of two frequencies was to be presented aids detection considerably, but such information does not entirely eliminate the decrement."
Etymology
From pre- + signal.
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