English Online Dictionary. What means marking? What does marking mean?
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɑɹkɪŋ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɑːkɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kɪŋ
Etymology 1
From Middle English marking, merking, merkunge, from Old English mearcung, from Proto-West Germanic *markungu, equivalent to mark + -ing.
Noun
marking (countable and uncountable, plural markings)
- The action of marking.
- A mark.
- The characteristic colouration and patterning of an animal.
- (graph theory) Any configuration of a Petri net with a number of marks or tokens distributed across it.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
marking
- present participle and gerund of mark