prolepsis

noun

1. 1

   The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.

2. 2

   The anticipation of an objection to an argument.

3. 3

   (grammar) A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.

4. 4

   A so-called "preconception", i.e. a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.

5. 5

   Growth in which lateral branches develop 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.

6. 6

   (authorship) The practice of placing information about the ending of a story near the beginning, as a literary device.