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countdowned

countdowned is the simple past and past participle of countdown.

Meaning of countdown

Verb

countdown (third-person singular simple present countdowns, present participle countdowning, simple past and past participle countdowned)

  1. (nonstandard) To count down.
    • This was accomplished in the old system by polling a software variable representing the number of prebleach bin and issuing a software command to trigger the AOM once the variable has countdowned to zero.1994, Yifeng Yuan, Polarized fluorescence photobleaching for measuring fast rotational motion of cell surface receptors

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Questions about countdowned

What is countdowned the simple past and past participle of?
Countdowned is the simple past and past participle of countdown.

Words near countdowned in the dictionary

  1. countback
  2. countbacks
  3. countdom
  4. countdoms
  5. countdown
  6. countdowned
  7. countdowning
  8. countdowns
  9. counte
  10. counted
  11. counted against

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