| Subject | English | French |
| telecom. | central preprocessing unit | unité de pré-traitement central |
| comp., MS | conditional primitive preprocessing | prétraitement primitif conditionnel (Altering of strings based on the requirements of individual script engines) |
| med.appl. | ECG preprocessing algorithm | algorithme de prétraitement d'ECG |
| comp. | front-end preprocessing | prétraitement d’entrée |
| tech. | image preprocessing | prétraitement d'image |
| comp. | instruction preprocessing unit | unité de prétraitement d’instructions |
| comp., MS | preprocessing period | période de prétraitement (The three to five day period before the beginning of the next billing cycle. If automated subscription renewal is activated, the Provisioning Server automatically generates the next scheduled provisioning packet and makes it available for the subscription computer) |
| med.appl. | preprocessing program | programme de prétraitement |