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hamming

hamming is the present participle and gerund of ham.

Meaning of ham

Verb

ham (third-person singular simple present hams, present participle hamming, simple past and past participle hammed)

  1. To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions.
    • Near-synonym: camp it up

See all 17 meanings of ham

Proper noun capitalized: Hamming

Hamming

  1. A surname.

Words formed from hamming

Phrases with hamming

Questions about hamming

What does hamming mean?
Hamming means a surname.
What is hamming the present participle and gerund of?
Hamming is the present participle and gerund of ham.
What part of speech is hamming?
Hamming is a proper noun.

Words near hamming in the dictionary

  1. hammiest
  2. Hammill
  3. Hammills
  4. hammily
  5. hamminess
  6. hamming
  7. Hamming code
  8. Hamming codes
  9. Hamming distance
  10. Hamming distances
  11. hamming it up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hamming (page history and authors); Hamming (page history and authors); ham (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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