prescreening
Speech parts
1. prescreening - Noun
2. prescreening - Verb
Meaning
prescreening
present participle of prescreen
prescreening (plural prescreenings)
A screening for problems in advance.
Examples
None of the hijackers were selected for extra scrutiny by the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS). citation Shehhi and the other hijackers boarded Flight 175 between 07:23 and 07:28.
For example, some consider the screening of airline passengers based on static databases to have been Security theater and the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System to have created a decrease in objective security.