Precursor meaning

prĭ-kûr'sər, prē'kûr'sər
Precursor is defined as something that led to the creation of something similar but new.

An example of precursor is how radio came before but helped create television.

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The definition of a precursor is something or someone that came before.

An example of a precursor is the dark clouds before a storm.

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One that precedes and indicates, suggests, or announces someone or something to come.

Colonial opposition to unfair taxation by the British was a precursor of the Revolution.

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One that precedes another; a forerunner or predecessor.

The new principal's precursor was an eminent educator.

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A biochemical substance, such as an intermediate compound in a chain of enzymatic reactions, from which a more stable or definitive product is formed.

A precursor of insulin.

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A person or thing that goes before; forerunner; harbinger.
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A predecessor, as in office.
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A substance that precedes and is the source of another substance.
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A biochemical substance, such as an intermediate compound in a chain of enzymatic reactions, from which a more stable or definitive product is formed.

A precursor of insulin.

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That which precurses, a forerunner, a predecessor, an indicator of approaching events.
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(chemistry) One of the compounds that participates in the chemical reaction that produces another compound.
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Origin of precursor

Middle English precursoure from Old French precurseur from Latin praecursor from praecursus past participle of praecurrere to run before prae- pre- currere to run kers- in Indo-European roots

Sentence Examples

  • Lifting her in his strong arms the way she had come to recognize as a precursor to lovemaking, he headed for their bedroom.

  • In this, as in other respects, he was a precursor of Protestantism.

  • In his literary spirit he is a precursor of the humanists of the Renaissance.

  • So far he may be fairly called the precursor of later utilitarianism.

  • The only extant prose work which may be assigned to the end of this period is the treatise on rhetoric known by the title Ad Herennium (c. 84) a work indicative of the attention bestowed on prose style and rhetorical studies during the last century of the republic, and which may be regarded as a precursor of the oratorical treatises of Cicero and of the work of Quintilian.

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