{
  "id": "pre.temporal",
  "term": "pre",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 2,
  "arena": "pre",
  "domain": "pre",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "it is before something in time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "previous.temporal",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "previous.temporal and time.dimension together are before something",
    "novel_properties": [
      "prefix role",
      "earlier meaning"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 preceded the first human spaceflight by four years.",
      "domain": "history"
    },
    {
      "text": "In the 2020 U.S. presidential election, mail-in ballots were counted after Election Day but before the final certification.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Cretaceous period ended 66 million years ago, before the rise of mammalian dominance.",
      "domain": "geology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "previous.temporal",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "pre"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-pre.temporal"
}