"premortem" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: Compare post mortem. See pre-. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*mer-|id=die}} Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} premortem (not comparable)
  1. Before death. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: antemortem, anthumous, predeath, prehumous
    Sense id: en-premortem-en-adj-iAHQkd7~
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: pre mortem, pre-mortem, prae-mortem [rare], præ-mortem [archaic]

Adverb

Etymology: Compare post mortem. See pre-. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*mer-|id=die}} Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} premortem (not comparable)
  1. Before death. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: antemortem, anthumously, prehumously
    Sense id: en-premortem-en-adv-iAHQkd7~
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: pre mortem, pre-mortem, prae-mortem [rare], præ-mortem [archaic]

Noun

Forms: premortems [plural]
Etymology: Compare post mortem. See pre-. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*mer-|id=die}} Head templates: {{en-noun}} premortem (plural premortems)
  1. An analysis of potential failure before it happens.
    Sense id: en-premortem-en-noun-HJDJftSb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 26 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: pre mortem, pre-mortem, prae-mortem [rare], præ-mortem [archaic]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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