<span class="searchmatch">taking</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">number</span> present participle and gerund of take <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">number</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">number</span> (third-person singular simple present takes <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">number</span>, present participle <span class="searchmatch">taking</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">number</span>, simple past took <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">number</span>, past participle taken <span class="searchmatch">a</span>...
(bioinformatics) The process of <span class="searchmatch">taking</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> large <span class="searchmatch">number</span> of short DNA sequences and putting them back together to create <span class="searchmatch">a</span> representation of the original...
care-<span class="searchmatch">taking</span> From care + <span class="searchmatch">taking</span>. caretaking (usually uncountable, plural caretakings) The act of <span class="searchmatch">taking</span> care or <span class="searchmatch">taking</span> charge of something. 1987 December...
From collapse + -gram. collapsogram (plural collapsograms) (astronomy) <span class="searchmatch">A</span> spectrum obtained by <span class="searchmatch">taking</span> the average of <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">number</span> of observations...
Collatz conjecture (mathematics) The conjecture that the process of <span class="searchmatch">taking</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">number</span> n {\displaystyle n} and, if n {\displaystyle n} is even, dividing it...
comparable) (programming, mathematics, linguistics) <span class="searchmatch">Taking</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> variable <span class="searchmatch">number</span> of arguments; especially, <span class="searchmatch">taking</span> arbitrarily many arguments. C's printf is one...
(UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɪnɪt(<span class="searchmatch">ə</span>)ɹi/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈfɪnɪtɛɹi/ finitary (not comparable) (mathematics) Of <span class="searchmatch">a</span> function, <span class="searchmatch">taking</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> finite <span class="searchmatch">number</span> of arguments to produce...
uncountable, plural bunkerings) (nautical) The <span class="searchmatch">taking</span> on board of bunker fuel. Synonym: coaling The <span class="searchmatch">number</span> of bunkerings at the port has been increasing...
American) IPA(key): /fɚ ðə ˈteɪkɪŋ/ Hyphenation: for the tak‧ing for the <span class="searchmatch">taking</span> Available; able to be taken without difficulty. [1850?], anonymous [possibly...