Preceding vs Prerequisite - What's the difference?
preceding | prerequisite |
Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.
Required as a prior condition of something else; necessary or indispensable.
Something that must be gained in order to gain something else
In education, a course or topic that must be completed before another course or topic can be started. May be colloquially referred to as a prereq .
As adjectives the difference between preceding and prerequisite
is that preceding is occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence while prerequisite is required as a prior condition of something else; necessary or indispensable.As a verb preceding
is present participle of lang=en.As a noun prerequisite is
something that must be gained in order to gain something else.preceding
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(-)- On the preceding Monday Shobana had gone on vacation.
Antonyms
* succeedingVerb
(head)prerequisite
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Adjective
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* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- Having a decent qualification is a prerequisite to getting a good job in marketing.
- Algebra is typically a prerequisite for physics .