"prefilter" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From pre- + filter.",
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      "form": "prefilters",
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      "form": "prefiltered",
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        "past"
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      "form": "pre-filter",
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "text": "The prefiltered data was fed to a computer program for analysis.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 June 1, Josh Taylor, “Australian media companies face defamation liability for comments on Facebook after court dismisses appeal”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Facebook does not allow for pre-moderation of comments on pages and comments cannot be turned off, however NSW supreme court justice Stephen Rothman had argued that the media companies could have used a word filter using extremely common words to pre-filter the majority of comments to only be visible to the page owner and that user and their friends.",
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        "To filter in advance."
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        "(transitive) To filter in advance."
      ],
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      ]
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  "word": "prefilter"
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      "form": "prefilters",
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        "A filter used in advance."
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    {
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      "form": "prefiltered",
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    },
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      "form": "prefiltered",
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    },
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        "(transitive) To filter in advance."
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      ],
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