pretravel
noun
(The amount of) movement of a working part of a mechanism that occurs before a point of action is reached; frequently attributive.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in Wireless World.
- myriadth
- myriagon
- myriameter
- myriametre
- myriametric
- myriapod
- Myriapoda
- myriapodan
- myriarch
- myriarchy
- myrica
- myricaceous
- myricetin
- myricetrin
- myricic acid
- myricitrin
- myricyl alcohol
- myricyl palmitate
- my Right Honourable friend
- myringitis
- myringoplasty
- myringotome
- myringotomy
- trickle down
- trickle irrigation