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culturing

culturing is the present participle and gerund of culture.

Meaning of culture

Verb

culture (third-person singular simple present cultures, present participle culturing, simple past and past participle cultured)

  1. (transitive) to maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate)
  2. (transitive) to increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something) (compare cultivate)

See all 12 meanings of culture

Noun

culturing (plural culturings)

  1. An act or an instance of growing or maintaining a culture (especially of bacteria).
    • Thus a positive finding may require several control culturings after treatment to eliminate false-negative results.1975, Dan Danielsson, Lennart Juhlin, Per-Anders Mårdh, Proceedings of the Symposium on Genital Infections and Their Complications, held in Stockholom, Sweden, October 9-11, 1974

Forms of culturing

pluralculturings

Questions about culturing

What does culturing mean?
Culturing means an act or an instance of growing or maintaining a culture (especially of bacteria).
What is culturing the present participle and gerund of?
Culturing is the present participle and gerund of culture.
What part of speech is culturing?
Culturing is a noun.
What is the plural of culturing?
The plural of culturing is culturings.

Words near culturing in the dictionary

  1. culturgen
  2. culturgens
  3. culturicidal
  4. culturicide
  5. culturicides
  6. culturing
  7. culturings
  8. culturism
  9. culturisms
  10. culturist
  11. culturists

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