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formating

formating is the present participle and gerund of formate.

formating is the misspelling of formatting.

Meaning of formate

Verb

formate (third-person singular simple present formates, present participle formating, simple past and past participle formated)

  1. To assemble flying aircraft into formation; to fly in formation.
    • Tiger Moths from the Reserve Flying Schools at Rochester and Cambridge competed with each other at formating in the gusty conditions, Rochester just winning.1949, The Aeroplane, volume 76, page 699

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Meaning of formatting

Noun

formatting (countable and uncountable, plural formattings)

  1. The visual style of a document, including fonts, borders, etc.
  2. The code in a markup language which determines a document's format.

Origin of formating

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Questions about formating

What is formating the present participle and gerund of?
Formating is the present participle and gerund of formate.

Words near formating in the dictionary

  1. formate
  2. formated
  3. formates
  4. formateur
  5. formateurs
  6. formating
  7. formation
  8. formation exposure time
  9. formation lap
  10. formation laps
  11. formation rule

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Adapted from Wiktionary: formating (page history and authors); formate (page history and authors); formatting (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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