Reran vs Preran - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between reran and preran

is that reran is simple past of rerun while preran is simple past of prerun.

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(rerun)

(wikipedia rerun)

(en noun)

(American) A television program shown after its initial presentation — particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a repeat.

(political) A political candidate who holds the same political agenda or doctrine as a past or incumbent holder of a given political office.

(computing) A second or subsequent run of a program.

Each rerun of the algorithm takes several minutes.

* (television program shown after its initial presentation) repeat

To run (a previously broadcast television program) again.

To run (a race) again.

To run (a computer program) again.

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(prerun)

(en noun)

The act of running something in advance.

* 2012 , Albert Y. Zomaya, Young Choon Lee, Energy Efficient Distributed Computing Systems (page 66)

several preruns of an application to collect the execution times

* 2012 , Kaj Johansson, Peter Lundberg, Robert Ryberg, A Guide to Graphic Print Production (page 295)

The digital print is also used for test runs and preruns .

To run in advance.