scramblings

Noun

scrambling (countable and uncountable, plural scramblings)

1. The act by which something is scrambled.
   • The scrambling of the message made it harder to decode.
2. Ascending steep terrain using one's hands to assist in holds and balance.
3. The ability of a language to reorder arguments within a clause without changing the core meaning or violating grammaticality.
   • As all the Germanic languages are V2 languages (except English, which also has neither object shift nor scrambling), and as the examples are main clauses without auxiliary verbs, the main verb has moved to C.1994, Sten Vikner, “Scandinavian object shift and West Germanic scrambling”, in Norbert Corver, Henk van Riemsdijk, editors, Studies on Scrambling […] , Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 488

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