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prepopulating

prepopulating is the present participle and gerund of prepopulate.

Meaning of prepopulate

Verb

prepopulate (third-person singular simple present prepopulates, present participle prepopulating, simple past and past participle prepopulated)

  1. (transitive) To populate (form fields, a database, etc.) in advance.
    • However, in addition to disabling the billing fields, we are also prepopulating them with data from the shipping fields.2009, Cody Lindley, jQuery Cookbook

Questions about prepopulating

What is prepopulating the present participle and gerund of?
Prepopulating is the present participle and gerund of prepopulate.

Words near prepopulating in the dictionary

  1. preponing
  2. prepontine
  3. prepopulate
  4. prepopulated
  5. prepopulates
  6. prepopulating
  7. prepopulation
  8. prepopulist
  9. prepore
  10. prepores
  11. preport

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