ranging
English
Verb
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- present participle and gerund 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.Category:English terms with quotations#RANGING
Derived terms
Noun
ranging (countable and uncountable, plural rangings)Category:English lemmas#RANGINGCategory:English nouns#RANGINGCategory:English uncountable nouns#RANGINGCategory:English countable nouns#RANGINGCategory:English countable nouns#RANGINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RANGINGCategory:Pages with entries#RANGINGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#RANGING
- The 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 […]Category:English terms with quotations#RANGING
- A back-and-forth movement.