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stillstanding

stillstanding is the present participle and gerund of stillstand.

Meaning of stillstand

Verb

stillstand (third-person singular simple present stillstands, present participle stillstanding, simple past and past participle stillstanded)

  1. To cease in either glacial advance or retreat.
    • It is tempting in these circumstances to look for the 'smoking gun'-a mechanism whereby glaciers from both the local Cairngorm ice cap, and the much larger Scottish Ice Sheet could stillstand, or even readvance for a period of 1 kyr, during deglaciation.2005 October 25, Jeremy Everest, P. Kubik, “The deglaciation of eastern Scotland: cosmogenic ¹⁰Be evidence for a Lateglacial stillstand”, in Journal of Quaternary Science, volume 2, number 1, Wiley...

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Questions about stillstanding

What is stillstanding the present participle and gerund of?
Stillstanding is the present participle and gerund of stillstand.

Words near stillstanding in the dictionary

  1. Stillson
  2. Stillson wrench
  3. Stillson wrenches
  4. Stillsons
  5. stillstand
  6. stillstanding
  7. stillstands
  8. stillth
  9. Stillwaggon
  10. Stillwagon
  11. Stillwagons

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