Traffic signals were pretimed, rather than responsive to the presence of vehicles (New Scientist). To use seconds in pretiming a complicated business involving thousands of participants…was bold indeed (New Yorker).
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Pre-rendering — is the process in which video footage is not rendered in real time by the hardware that is outputing or playing back the video. Instead, the video is a recording of a footage that was previously rendered on a different equipment (typically one… … Wikipedia
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Pre-Romanesque art and architecture — is the period in Western European art from either the emergence of the Merovingian kingdom in about 500 or from the Carolingian Renaissance in the late 8th century, to the beginning of the 11th century Romanesque period. The term is generally… … Wikipedia
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