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inlining

inlining is the present participle and gerund of inline.

Meaning of inline

Verb

inline (third-person singular simple present inlines, present participle inlining, simple past and past participle inlined)

  1. (transitive) To optimize using in-line expansion.
    • Some compilers will allow statics to be inlined, but then incorrectly create multiple instances of the inlined variable at run-time.2000, Dov Bulka, David Mayhew, Efficient C++: Performance Programming Techniques, page 149

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Noun

inlining (plural inlinings)

  1. An instance of in-line expansion.

Forms of inlining

pluralinlinings

Questions about inlining

What does inlining mean?
Inlining means an instance of in-line expansion.
What is inlining the present participle and gerund of?
Inlining is the present participle and gerund of inline.
What part of speech is inlining?
Inlining is a noun.
What is the plural of inlining?
The plural of inlining is inlinings.

Words near inlining in the dictionary

  1. inlinee
  2. inlinees
  3. inliner
  4. inliners
  5. inlines
  6. inlining
  7. inlinings
  8. inlink
  9. inlinks
  10. inlist
  11. inlisted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inlining (page history and authors); inline (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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