: something (such as a radio station) preprogrammed into a device
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wendy Wisner, Parents, 10 Sep. 2025
This often means subtle and personalized touches: a villa pre-stocked with a guest’s favorite wine, spa staff briefed on preferred pressure, or lighting preset to match circadian rhythms.
—Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2025
The unit runs a proprietary operating system, and has 64 GB of onboard storage that holds the sounds, presets, patches and saved stuff.
—New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2025
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Verb
One way to do this is to have your child use a teen account on Instagram, which has preset limits on content for kids under 18.
—wendy Wisner, Parents, 10 Sep. 2025
This often means subtle and personalized touches: a villa pre-stocked with a guest’s favorite wine, spa staff briefed on preferred pressure, or lighting preset to match circadian rhythms.
—Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
The final installment in the rebooted Tomb Raider series resolved an average of 55fps on low presets, slightly below the Legion Go S (Z1 Extreme, SteamOS) result of 60fps on average.
—Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2025
The unit runs a proprietary operating system, and has 64 GB of onboard storage that holds the sounds, presets, patches and saved stuff.
—New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Preset.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/preset. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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