1. prepend - Noun
2. prepend - Verb
prepend (third-person singular simple present prepends, present participle prepending, simple past and past participle prepended)
(computing, linguistics, transitive) To attach (an expression, phrase, etc.) to another, as a prefix.
prepend (plural prepends)
The act of prepending.
prepend (third-person singular simple present prepends, present participle prepending, simple past and past participle prepended)
(rare, transitive) To premeditate; to weigh up mentally.
A naive approach might be to prepend the frequency count of each character to the compression stream. Source: Internet
Another method is to simply prepend the Huffman tree, bit by bit, to the output stream. Source: Internet