proleptic

1. An instance of prolepsis;

   The placement of an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.

2. Information about the outcome of a story placed near the beginning.

3. A lateral branch that develops from a lateral meristem, after the formation of a bud or following a period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.

4. Something that predicts or implies the future or outcome.

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