Definition: In computer science, "pre-exclusively" is a technical term used to describe a concept or action that can be performed only once (or by one entity) and cannot be done again. For example, in a software development scenario where a function must take an input parameter and return a value, if the function receives a null pointer as its argument, it would not perform any further processing or modification of the input data. In general, "pre-exclusively" refers to a concept that