depreferencing
depreferencing is the present participle and gerund of depreference.
Meaning of depreference
Verb
depreference (third-person singular simple present depreferences, present participle depreferencing, simple past and past participle depreferenced)
- To cause something to stop being preferred by a search engine algorithm.
- We predict from this experiment that depreferencing short-term routes would have little negative impact in practice, as most affected routes are misconfigured, non-optimal routes discovered during convergence, or attacks.2008 October 23, Josh Karlin, Stephanie Forrest, Jennifer Rexford, “Autonomous security for autonomous systems”, in Computer Networks, volume 52, number 15, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC...
Questions about depreferencing
- What is depreferencing the present participle and gerund of?
- Depreferencing is the present participle and gerund of depreference.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: depreferencing (page history and authors); depreference (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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