Usually means: Shape material before final manufacturing.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word preform:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. preform: Merriam-Webster
  2. preform: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. preform: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. preform: Collins English Dictionary
  5. preform: Vocabulary.com
  6. preform: Wordnik
  7. preform: Wiktionary
  8. preform: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. preform: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Preform, preform: Dictionary.com
  11. Preform: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Preform: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. preform: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. preform: Rhymezone
  15. Preform: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. preform: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. preform: FreeDictionary.org
  18. preform: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. preform: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preform: Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Preform: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See preforming as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (preform)

noun:  An object that has undergone preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form.
noun:  (archaeology) The rough, incomplete and unused basic form of a stone tool.
noun:  (linguistics) A word that is no longer in use, but has been reconstructed from current ones.
verb:  To shape something before some other operation.
verb:  Misspelling of perform. [(transitive) To do (something); to execute.]

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