postprocess

verb — 2 senses

postprocess

verb

Etymology From post- + process.

1

To process after other processing has been completed.

  • He's been postprocessing all morning. He hopes to finish today.
2

To subject to postprocessing.

  • He's been postprocessing the 3D-printed housing by doing certain grinding and polishing steps.
  • She has to postprocess the CAD/CAM file, to prepare it for the relevant machine, before she can post it.
1 more example
  • We postprocess three-dimensional GRMHD models of a jet-producing radiatively inefficient accretion flow around a spinning black hole using relativistic radiative transfer and ray-tracing to produce model spectra and images.2015, Monika Moscibrodzka, Heino Falcke, Hotaka Shiokawa, “GRMHD simulations of the jet in M87”, in arXiv:
Related terms
postmodify, premodify

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