ranging

English

Verb

ranging

1. present participle of range
   • 2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184:

     In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.

Derived terms

• wide-ranging

Noun

ranging (plural rangings)

1. Act of one who ranges.
   • 1999, Patricia Riles Wickman, The Tree that Bends:

     […] the elite warrior class and their sexual rangings in pursuit of extratribal wives […]

Anagrams

• graning