Meaning of PRECURSOR
| Pronunciation: | | pri'kursur
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- [n] an indication of the approach of something or someone
- [n] a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
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| | Synonyms: | | forerunner, forerunner, harbinger, herald |
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| | See Also: | | human, indicant, indication, individual, mortal, person, predecessor, somebody, someone, soul | |
| Products Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Precursor
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pre*cur"sor\, n. [L. praecursor, fr. praecurrere to
run before; prae before + currere to run. See {Course}.]
One who, or that which, precedes an event, and indicates its
approach; a forerunner; a harbinger.
Evil thoughts are the invisible, airy precursors of all
the storms and tempests of the soul. --Buckminster.
Syn: Predecessor; forerunner; harbinger; messenger; omen;
sign.
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| | Definition: | | - A molecule which exists as an ingredient, reactant, or intermediate in an anabolic pathway that synthesizes a particular product. The molecule is described as the "precursor" of that product. For example, procollagen is the precursor molecule for collagen because collagen is made from it.
- A condition or set of conditions which precedes something and/or is necessary for something to occur.
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| | Related Terms: | | advance guard, agent, airhead, alterant, alterative, alterer, ancestor, ancestors, announcer, antecedence, antecedency, antecedent, anteposition, anteriority, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, avant-garde, battle line, beachhead, begetter, beginner, bridgehead, buccinator novi temporis, builder, catalyst, catalytic agent, colonial, colonist, colonizer, conceiver, constructor, craftsman, creator, danger sign, designer, deviser, discoverer, dominion, early bird, early comer, early riser, early symptom, effector, engenderer, engineer, executor, executrix, falling barometer, farthest outpost, father, ferment, first arrival, first line, forefront, foregoer, foregoing, forerunner, foreshadower, founder, front, front line, front position, front rank, front-runner, gathering clouds, generator, grower, harbinger, heading, herald, high sign, homesteader, immigrant, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator, innovationist, innovator, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, journeyman, le pas, leading, leaven, line, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, messenger, modificator, modifier, mother, nester, omen, organizer, originator, outguard, outpost, outrider, past master, pioneer, planner, planter, point, precedence, precedency, precedent, preceding, precession, predecessor, preference, prefixation, preliminary sign, prelude, premise, premonitor, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, presager, prime mover, priority, prodroma, prodrome, producer, prothesis, prototype, quarantine flag, railhead, raiser, realizer, red flag, red light, scout, settler, shaper, sire, skull and crossbones, smith, sooner, spearhead, squatter, storm petrel, stormy petrel, superiority, symptom, the lead, thundercloud, thunderhead, top priority, transformer, transmogrifier, urgency, van, vanguard, warning sign, warning signal, wright, yeast, yellow flag, yellow jack |
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