preliminary draft; abstract
Commonly used for a short paper submitted to an academic conference before the full paper. Can refer to the draft itself or the published abstract in proceedings.
学会の予稿を締切までに提出した。
I submitted the conference abstract by the deadline.
予稿集には研究の概要が載っている。
The proceedings contain summaries of the research.
Compound of 予 (preliminary) and 稿 (draft, manuscript). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word is a modern coinage for academic contexts.