typing

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English

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Etymology

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By surface analysis, type +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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typing (countable and uncountable, plural typings)

  1. Assigning or classification by type.
  2. The act of typing on a keyboard.
    • 2023 January 25, Howard Johnston, “Peter Kelly: August 2 1944-December 28 2022”, in RAIL, number 975, page 47:
      "My memory of him in the office at Peterborough was the ferocious nature of his typing, on a manual machine of course. This was long before the days of desktop publishing, and you could hear him down the corridor absolutely hammering the keyboard."

Hyponyms

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(computing): Hyponyms of typing

Derived terms

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Translations

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Verb

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typing

  1. present participle and gerund of type

References

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