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lightweighting

lightweighting is the present participle and gerund of lightweight.

Meaning of lightweight

Verb

lightweight (third-person singular simple present lightweights, present participle lightweighting, simple past and past participle lightweighted)

  1. (transitive) To reduce the amount or weight of.
    • By extending the producer’s responsibility to the product’s disposal (its post-consumer life), issues previously outside the business calculus become of paramount importance. Because a producer knows it will have to bear the cost of collecting and valorizing the product, it must manage a new set of...1997 December 22, James Salzman, “Sustainable consumption and the law”, in Environmental Law

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Questions about lightweighting

What is lightweighting the present participle and gerund of?
Lightweighting is the present participle and gerund of lightweight.

Words near lightweighting in the dictionary

  1. lightwaves
  2. lightweight
  3. lightweight spaceship
  4. lightweight spaceships
  5. lightweighted
  6. lightweighting
  7. lightweightness
  8. lightweights
  9. lightwell
  10. lightwells
  11. lightwhip

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