infill
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See also: in-fill
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
infill (third-person singular simple present infills, present participle infilling, simple past and past participle infilled)
- To fill in a space, hole or gap.
- To rededicate land in an urban environment to new construction.
Translations[edit]
to rededicate land
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Noun[edit]
infill (plural infills)
- That which fills in a space, hole or gap.
- 2020 July 15, “Rail freight sector demands Government commitment”, in Rail, page 10:
- Government needs to provide certainty to the rail freight industry with infill electrification programmes [...]. "First, it's about Government committing to infill electrification so we can do things with the locomotives we already have, and then a rolling plan of electrification."
- (cosmetics) The redecoration of a fingernail or toenail after it has grown, to prevent an unsightly gap.
Etymology 2[edit]
Apparently by shortening.
Noun[edit]
infill
- (uncommon, especially military) Infiltration, the act of going into a place.
- 1991, John Leppelman, Blood on the risers: an airborne soldier's thirty-five months in Vietnam:
- Hinton and I were briefed at the TOC and received maps of our AO to memorize and mark with codes for the primary and secondary LZs for infill and exfill.
- 2011, Brett Newman, Detroit Convention Center: A Design Process and Typological Study:
- Pedestrian infill/exfill from Atwater Street
- 1991, John Leppelman, Blood on the risers: an airborne soldier's thirty-five months in Vietnam: