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pregroove

noun

Etymology

From pre- + groove.

  1. derived from *gʰrebʰ-✻ — “to dig, scrape, bury”
  2. inherited from *grōbō✻ — “groove, furrow”
  3. inherited from *grōbu✻
  4. derived from groeve — “furrow, ditch”
  5. derived from gróf — “pit”
  6. inherited from grov
  7. prefixed as pregroove — “pre + groove”

Definitions

  1. A premolded spiral groove in an optical disc, used to guide the laser beam when the disc…

    A premolded spiral groove in an optical disc, used to guide the laser beam when the disc is read or written.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pregroove. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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