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scansioning

scansioning is the present participle and gerund of scansion.

Meaning of scansion

Verb

scansion (third-person singular simple present scansions, present participle scansioning, simple past and past participle scansioned)

  1. (transitive) Of text, to put into a rhythmic form or meter.
    • Many of my doggerels are scansioned from letters I've written to these children while they were incarcerated in those warehouses for the minority nuisance, laughingly called correctional facilities.2000, Don Pirata, Cark and Moil, →ISBN
  2. (broadly, transitive) To impose patterns on.
    • The fine zigzag and diagonal interweavings, the nuances of varying intervals between the scansioned dots, show the enormous time and effort Polke invested in his complex, manual transfer method.1999, Margit Rowell, Michael Semff, Bice Curiger, Sigmar Polke: Works on Paper 1963-1974, →ISBN, page 27

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Questions about scansioning

What is scansioning the present participle and gerund of?
Scansioning is the present participle and gerund of scansion.

Words near scansioning in the dictionary

  1. scans
  2. scanscope
  3. scanscopes
  4. scansion
  5. scansioned
  6. scansioning
  7. scansionist
  8. scansionists
  9. scansions
  10. scanslation
  11. scansorial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scansioning (page history and authors); scansion (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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