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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
preprint

also pre-print, 1913, from pre- + print (v.). Related: Preprinted; preprinting.

preprint

1889, from pre- + print (n.).

Wiktionary
preprint

n. A preliminary form of a scientific paper that has not yet been published in a journal. vb. To print in advance.

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Preprint

In academic publishing, a preprint is a version of a scholarly or scientific paper that precedes publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly or scientific journal. The preprint may persist, often as a non-typeset version available free, after a paper is published in a journal.

Usage examples of "preprint".

Blythe smiled at her, then sat at the head of the kitchen table and took a preprinted form from a leather pouch at his belt.

Six of the pages seemed to be preprinted forms, with spaces in which some text had been written in by hand.

The distribution was scattershot - e-mail, preprint servers, news servers, FTP.

As usual, I was carrying a Zip disk with work-related files in my briefcase, and I had some article preprints I wanted to read.

Other than the notebooks, the cubicle office held nothing but physics texts, journal articles, preprints, and equip­ment manuals.