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Preprocessing vs Mining - What's the difference?

preprocessing | mining |

As verbs the difference between preprocessing and mining

is that preprocessing is present participle of preprocess while mining is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun mining is

(activity of removing solid valuables from the earth) The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.

preprocessing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Alternative forms

    * pre-processing

    mining

    English

    Noun

  • (senseid) The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.
    • gold mining
  • (figuratively) Any activity that extracts or undermines.
    • His extensive mining for apparently statistically significant results made any of his results questionable.
  • * (Jonathan Swift)
    • the fabrick, however weak by the delicacy of its composition, would not have fallen so soon, if the foundation had not been injured by the slow minings of regret and vexation.
  • (military) The activity of placing explosives underground, rigged to explode

    • Derived terms

    * defensive mining * offensive mining * open-pit mining * strip-mining * surface mining

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * data mining

    Related terms

    * mine