typing

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, type +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtaɪpɪŋ/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Hyphenation: typ‧ing
  • Rhymes: -aɪpɪŋ

Noun

typing (countable and uncountable, plural typings)

  1. Assignment or classification by type.
    Near-synonyms: classifying, categorizing; classification, categorization; sorting
    1. (computer science) The assignment of data types for variables.
  2. The act of one who types 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

(computing): Hyponyms of typing

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

typing

  1. present participle and gerund of type

References

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