Adjective
Before a break.
Usage- not-comparable
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The Knicks’ prebreak ineptitude appeared set to continue on the game’s first possession, which ended with a shot-clock violation as Jamal Crawford air-balled a desperate 3-pointer.
Verb
To break up large chunks of material into a size that is more convenient for further processing.
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Prebreakers are used to prebreak or crush cocoa presscakes, fats, large fruit or vegetables, whole fish, bones, etc.
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If you need to separate, mix, size, wash, reduce, rinse, granulate, prebreak, grind, mill, disperse, decake, pulverize, blend Why not increase your profits in the process?
With 1% salt, patties produced from meat prebroken at −6°C tended to be favoured; with 0.5% salt the effect of prebreak temperature was clearer, with products from meat at −3°C being favoured, and considered more meaty.
Noun
The initial stage of processing, in which material is prebroken.
Usage- Uncountable
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The incoming material is coarsely ground (prebreak), and placed in steam-jacketed cookers.
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A feed wheel slides the blanks off the bottom, one at a time, where they are carried between belts moving at up to 2,000 ft (610 m) per minute into a prebreak station.
With 1% salt, patties produced from meat prebroken at -6°C tended to be favoured; with 0.5 % salt the effect of prebreak temperature was clearer, with products from meat at -3°C being favoured, and considered more meaty.