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fooming

fooming is the present participle and gerund of foom.

Meaning of foom

Verb

foom (third-person singular simple present fooms, present participle fooming, simple past and past participle foomed)

  1. To exhibit an AI foom.
    • The reason an AI can foom so much faster than its society is that an AI can change its basic mental architecture,and humans can’t.2013, Robin Hanson, Eliezer Yudkowsky, The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate, page 216

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Questions about fooming

What is fooming the present participle and gerund of?
Fooming is the present participle and gerund of foom.

Words near fooming in the dictionary

  1. foolship
  2. foolships
  3. foolsome
  4. foom
  5. foomed
  6. fooming
  7. fooms
  8. foon
  9. Foong
  10. foons
  11. foont

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