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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pre-set
adjective
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▪ As the backswing progresses, the shoulders turn around the spine angle which is pre-set at the address position.
▪ Effectiveness, by contrast, is not about relative performance but about achieving pre-set targets or objectives.
▪ If the temperature continues to rise above a pre-set critical level the power source will be shut down completely.
▪ Independent funds tend to be closed ended, and have a pre-set strategy and investment size and duration.
▪ Johnson Fry pays holders a pre-set quarterly income.
▪ Many of the expert demonstration teams use wrist straps with pre-set line lengths.
▪ No longer does he have to follow pre-set movements.
▪ Perhaps they predicted her actions, a rat in a pre-set maze.
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pre-set

vb. To set in advance.

Usage examples of "pre-set".

Reedy music sounded, the paired apices and luxuriously dressed females moved about the shining marquetry floor in pre-set arrangements, their looks of pride and humility equally distasteful, while the servant males moved carefully around like machines, making sure each glass was kept full, each plate covered.

Instead of pre-setting the conditions of each simulation, perhaps we should try a Darwinistic approach.

Tom had done his best in pre-setting the various filters available, but information overload was still a factor when trying to follow what was going on.

First Kristy and Alan would have to run about fifty yards, then do a long jump over a sandpit (they'd have to do that close together since the pit was pretty narrow), then jump over three low hurdles, then high jump over a pre-set bar, then zigzag around a half-dozen traffic cones, then step through another half-dozen car tires, then sprint the last fifty or so yards to the finish line.