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quasiquoting

quasiquoting is the present participle and gerund of quasiquote.

Meaning of quasiquote

Verb

quasiquote (third-person singular simple present quasiquotes, present participle quasiquoting, simple past and past participle quasiquoted)

  1. (transitive) To enclose (a text fragment within source code) in a special markup that allows it to be separately parsed to yield a computed output value.

Questions about quasiquoting

What is quasiquoting the present participle and gerund of?
Quasiquoting is the present participle and gerund of quasiquote.

Words near quasiquoting in the dictionary

  1. quasiquote
  2. quasiquoted
  3. quasiquoter
  4. quasiquoters
  5. quasiquotes
  6. quasiquoting
  7. quasiracism
  8. quasiracist
  9. quasirandom
  10. quasirandomised
  11. quasirandomization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quasiquoting (page history and authors); quasiquote (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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