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countdowning

countdowning is the present participle and gerund 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 countdowning

What is countdowning the present participle and gerund of?
Countdowning is the present participle and gerund of countdown.

Words near countdowning in the dictionary

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

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