"pre-alpha version" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: pre-alpha versions [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pre-alpha version (plural pre-alpha versions)
  1. (software engineering) A program or application that is not feature-complete and is not usually released to the public. Developers are usually still deciding on what features the program should have at this stage of software development. This stage comes before the alpha version, and is the first software development stage given to a program.

Inflected forms

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