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cohosting

cohosting is the present participle and gerund of cohost.

Meaning of cohost

Verb

cohost (third-person singular simple present cohosts, present participle cohosting, simple past and past participle cohosted)

  1. To act as a joint host.
  2. (transitive) To store data or applications on a shared server (as in web hosting).
    • Generally speaking, in a shared computing system, such as a server farm shared by multiple cohosted Web sites, common resources can be categorized into two different types: those shared in time and those shared in space.2006, Hossein Bidgoli, Handbook of Information Security

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Questions about cohosting

What is cohosting the present participle and gerund of?
Cohosting is the present participle and gerund of cohost.

Words near cohosting in the dictionary

  1. cohosted
  2. cohostess
  3. cohostessed
  4. cohostesses
  5. cohostessing
  6. cohosting
  7. cohosts
  8. cohouse
  9. cohoused
  10. cohousing
  11. Cohran

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