prior to meaning

Definition of prior to in English Dictionary

• Preposition
  1. (formal) before.
• More Examples
  1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
     • Biotinylated pMHC monomers were stored at -80°C and tetramerised in the week prior to printing.
     • We are especially concerned here with the question of whether certain kinds of properties associated with subjecthood are acquired prior to other kinds of properties.
     • Bacteria were grown in microaerophilia as previously described [ 16 ] in static conditions to an OD 600  = 0.2 prior to being added to macrophages at a MOI of 100:1.

• Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
  1. Prepositions

Other Vocabulary

1. en priority
2. fr priorité
3. en priorate
4. en prioress
5. fr prorata