preregistration

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An early registration, before the normal or traditional time, as with early online check-in at hotels.
  2. Registration (of a study design) before a clinical trial (or any other type of scientific experiment) begins, for methodologic and thus epistemologic rigor.
adj
  1. Before registration.
  2. Pertaining to preregistration (of scientific trials or other experiments).

Word forms

preregistration preregistrations

Etymology

From pre- + registration.

Related words

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