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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)

  1. 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.

Words near depreferencing in the dictionary

  1. depredators
  2. depredatory
  3. depreference
  4. depreferenced
  5. depreferences
  6. depreferencing
  7. deprehend
  8. deprehended
  9. deprehending
  10. deprehends
  11. deprehensible

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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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