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spiking

spiking adjective: spiky. Also the present participle and gerund of spike.

Adjective

spiking

  1. spiky
  2. protruding like a spike.
    • By referring to Figs. 1, and 2, it will be seen that the spiking pieces are all in place along the edges of the " tees " of beams and girders.1912 March, Francis W. Wilson, “Structural Details of Skeleton Frame Construction”, in The Cement Age; a Magazine Devoted to the Uses of Cement, page 130
  3. Associated with or causing one or more sudden sharp increases.
    • The presence of background material often increases the difficulty level for analysis because the background may hide the spiking chemicals or may even react with the spiking chemicals.2005, Markku Mesilaakso, Chemical Weapons Convention Chemicals Analysis, page 94
    • The spikes in every 2 x 2 non-overlapping region of the convolutional maps are summed up and normalized by the kernel size (4 for a 2 x 2 kernel) to produce the pooled output maps, which are then fed to a layer of Integrate and Fire (IF) spiking neurons to generate the pooled spike maps.2020, Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan, Kaushik Roy, “ReStpCMet: Residual Stochastic Binary Convolutional Spiking Neural Network for Memory-Efficient Neuromorphic Computing”, in Guoqi Li, Yam Song (Yansong)...

Noun

spiking (plural spikings)

  1. The act by which something is spiked.
    • You're looking for reported cases of suspected poisonings, drink-spikings leading to illness or death, unexplained deaths that could have been down to poison, anything like that.2012, Barry Maitland, Dark Mirror, page 18

Also used as

spiking is also the present participle and gerund of spike.

Forms of spiking

pluralspikings

Words formed from spiking

Phrases with spiking

Questions about spiking

What does spiking mean?
Spiking means spiky.
What part of speech is spiking?
Spiking can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near spiking in the dictionary

  1. spikier
  2. spikiest
  3. spikily
  4. spikiness
  5. spikinesses
  6. spiking
  7. spiking a temp
  8. spiking a temperature
  9. spiking neural network
  10. spiking neural networks
  11. spiking someone's guns

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