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shallow-copying

shallow-copying is the present participle and gerund of shallow-copy.

Meaning of shallow-copy

Verb

shallow-copy (third-person singular simple present shallow-copies, present participle shallow-copying, simple past and past participle shallow-copied)

  1. (transitive) To make a shallow copy of.
    • The bug came from trying to shallow-copy a mutable structure.

Questions about shallow-copying

What is shallow-copying the present participle and gerund of?
Shallow-copying is the present participle and gerund of shallow-copy.

Words near shallow-copying in the dictionary

  1. shallow fellows
  2. Shallow Water
  3. shallow-copied
  4. shallow-copies
  5. shallow-copy
  6. shallow-copying
  7. shallow-fried
  8. shallow-fries
  9. shallow-fry
  10. shallow-frying
  11. shallow-hearted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shallow-copying (page history and authors); shallow-copy (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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