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Alt-Tabbing

Alt-Tabbing is the present participle and gerund of Alt-Tab.

Meaning of Alt-Tab

Verb

Alt-Tab (third-person singular simple present Alt-Tabs, present participle Alt-Tabbing, simple past and past participle Alt-Tabbed)

  1. (intransitive) To switch between windows or applications by pressing Alt-Tab (or equivalent).
    • If I Alt-Tabbed through all other open programs, eventually returning to the screen from which the cursor disappeared, it would reappear and everything seemed fine.1996, PC Magazine, volume 15, numbers 13–16, page 87

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Questions about Alt-Tabbing

What is Alt-Tabbing the present participle and gerund of?
Alt-Tabbing is the present participle and gerund of Alt-Tab.

Words near Alt-Tabbing in the dictionary

  1. alt-rock
  2. alt-rocker
  3. alt-rockers
  4. alt-tab
  5. Alt-Tabbed
  6. Alt-Tabbing
  7. Alt-Tabs
  8. alt-tech
  9. alt-weeklies
  10. alt-weekly
  11. alt.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Alt-Tabbing (page history and authors); Alt-Tab (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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