Definitions for "Preliminaries"
Those introductory pages which precede the text of a book. They include title page, copyright, preface, contents, and other non-text pages for identification or explanation; also called Front Matter. to top
The title page(s) of an item, the verso of the title page(s), any pages preceding the title page(s), and the cover.
Keywords:  finalists, divers, dives, meet, semi
A series of dives used to determine which divers reach the semi-finals of a meet.
in certain meets, the qualifying rounds held for each event to determine the finalists.
matters which feature at the beginning of a Bill of Quantities, which are relevant to the contractor in terms of his obligations and responsibilities and which will therefore influence his costings. These would include such items as names of clients and consultants, insurance requirements, length of contract, descriptions of the site in terms of its access, working areas and adjacent buildings etc, a detailed description of the work to be undertaken and the order in which it should be tackled.