preflight

About 0.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Taking place before the start of a flight.
2. adjective Serving to confirm that requests can be accepted, before sending an actual request.

   a CORS preflight request

3. noun An inspection of an aircraft before the start of a flight.
4. noun The portion of the movement after launching from the springboard but before pushing off the vault.
5. verb To perform an inspection of an aircraft before the start of a flight.

Similar words

checkout predeparture prelanding prefight prefire pretrip preopening presecurity prejob pre-match

Often followed by

inspection check and planning preparation checks checklist briefing training

Word family

preflighted preflighting preflights