marking

marking

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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)

  1. The action of marking.
  2. A mark.
  3. The characteristic colouration and patterning of an animal.
  4. (graph theory) Any configuration of a Petri net with a number of marks or tokens distributed across it.
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Etymology 2

Verb

marking

  1. present participle and gerund of mark

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