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noise-canceling

noise-canceling is the present participle and gerund of noise-cancel.

Meaning of noise-cancel

Verb

noise-cancel (third-person singular simple present noise-cancels, present participle (US) noise-canceling or (UK) noise-cancelling, simple past and past participle (US) noise-canceled or (UK) noise-cancelled)

  1. To reduce ambient noise with noise cancellation.
    • My boyfriend, the cello owner, makes little noises while he putters around, which distracts me from reading my 20,000-word long-form articles about Iraq. So I noise-cancel him too.2019 May 15, Olga Khazan, “What Happens When You Always Wear Headphones”, in The Atlantic

Questions about noise-canceling

What is noise-canceling the present participle and gerund of?
Noise-canceling is the present participle and gerund of noise-cancel.

Words near noise-canceling in the dictionary

  1. noise up
  2. noise word
  3. noise words
  4. noise-cancel
  5. noise-canceled
  6. noise-canceling
  7. noise-cancelled
  8. noise-cancelling
  9. noise-cancels
  10. noise-free
  11. noise-shy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: noise-canceling (page history and authors); noise-cancel (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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