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rebooting

rebooting is the present participle and gerund of reboot.

Meaning of reboot

Verb

reboot (third-person singular simple present reboots, present participle rebooting, simple past and past participle rebooted)

  1. (ergative) To execute a computer's boot process, effectively resetting the computer and causing the operating system to reload, commonly after a system failure.
    • We need to reboot the system after installing these updates.
  2. (broadly) To start afresh.
    • They rebooted the TV series, but it's even worse than the original.
  3. Restart; to return to an initial configuration or state.
    • Egg farmers do this to reboot birds' internal clocks so they start laying valuable eggs faster and, crucially, at the same time.2011, J. Morris Hicks, Healthy Eating, Healthy World, →ISBN, page 119

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Noun

rebooting (plural rebootings)

  1. The act by which something (a computer, a TV series, etc.) is rebooted.

Forms of rebooting

pluralrebootings

Questions about rebooting

What does rebooting mean?
Rebooting means the act by which something (a computer, a TV series, etc.) is rebooted.
What is rebooting the present participle and gerund of?
Rebooting is the present participle and gerund of reboot.
What part of speech is rebooting?
Rebooting is a noun.
What is the plural of rebooting?
The plural of rebooting is rebootings.

Words near rebooting in the dictionary

  1. reboot
  2. rebootable
  3. rebooted
  4. rebooter
  5. rebooters
  6. rebooting
  7. rebootings
  8. reboots
  9. rebop
  10. rebopped
  11. rebopping

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