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subselecting

subselecting is the present participle and gerund of subselect.

Meaning of subselect

Verb

subselect (third-person singular simple present subselects, present participle subselecting, simple past and past participle subselected)

  1. (transitive) To select (part of a larger selection).
    • The ready-made title block shapes are actually groups. When you click a title block, the entire group is selected; then, you can click an individual shape to subselect it.2009, Mark H. Walker, Nanette Eaton, Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Inside Out

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Questions about subselecting

What is subselecting the present participle and gerund of?
Subselecting is the present participle and gerund of subselect.

Words near subselecting in the dictionary

  1. subsegments
  2. subseizure
  3. subseizures
  4. subselect
  5. subselected
  6. subselecting
  7. subselection
  8. subselections
  9. subselective
  10. subselector
  11. subselectors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subselecting (page history and authors); subselect (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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