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nicing

nicing is the present participle and gerund of nice.

Meaning of nice

Verb

nice (third-person singular simple present nices, present participle nicing, simple past and past participle niced)

  1. (Unix, transitive) To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.

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Questions about nicing

What is nicing the present participle and gerund of?
Nicing is the present participle and gerund of nice.

Words near nicing in the dictionary

  1. nichromite
  2. Nichter
  3. Nichters
  4. Nichula
  5. NICI
  6. nicing
  7. nicish
  8. nick
  9. Nick & Nora
  10. Nick & Noras
  11. Nick and Nora

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nicing (page history and authors); nice (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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