booting

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English

Verb

booting

  1. present participle of boot

Noun

booting (plural bootings)

  1. A kicking, as with a booted foot.
  2. (computing) The act by which a computer is booted.
    • 1999, Peter Norton, ‎John M. Goodman, Peter Norton's Inside the PC (page 101)
      […] you can save yourself a little bit of time on subsequent bootings by altering a setting in the motherboard BIOS.
  3. (obsolete) Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir. J. Harrington to this entry?)

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