What Does Preformulate Mean?

transitive verb. : to formulate (something) in advance preformulating her responses for the debate.

What does formulate mean math?

To express in or reduce to a formula. ... To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.

What does the word primitive?

1a : not derived : original, primary. b : assumed as a basis especially : axiomatic primitive concepts. 2a : of or relating to the earliest age or period : primeval the primitive church. b : closely approximating an early ancestral type : little evolved primitive mammals.