prepenultimate

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ penultimate.

Adjective

prepenultimate (comparative more prepenultimate, superlative most prepenultimate)

  1. Synonym of antepenultimate.
    • 1967, Norman L. Allinger, Ernest Ludwig Eliel, Topics in Stereochemistry, volume 2, John Wiley & Sons, page 146:
      Inversion at each additional step by the attack of the monomer's electron pair insures that when carbon 3 becomes part of the prepenultimate unit and carbon 1 becomes part of the penultimate unit they will have the same configurations.
    • 2015 Dec, Dimson, Elroy, Karakaş, Oğuzhan, Xi Li, “Active Ownership.”, in Review of Financial Studies, volume 28, number 12, page 3239:
      The prepenultimate row reports overall statistics for ES engagements, which may be compared with CG engagements in the first row. The penultimate row provides chi-square tests of the difference between ES and CG engagements. The last row provides summary statistics for the entire sample, comprising both CG and ES engagements.
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