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substringing

substringing is the present participle and gerund of substring.

Meaning of substring

Verb

substring (third-person singular simple present substrings, present participle substringing, simple past and past participle substringed)

  1. (transitive) To extract a substring from.
    • If an existing character-based column is increased in size and your program does not need the extra characters, the view can be changed to force the smaller size by substringing the existing column.2015, Nadir K. Amra, Hernando Bedoya, Tony Cairns, Modernizing IBM i Applications from the Database up to the User Interface and Everything in Between
  2. (transitive) To take as a substring.
    • In this example, knowing that MY_SOUNDEX returns at most six characters, we are substringing the first six characters.2010, Thomas Kyte, Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Oracle Database 9i, 10g, and 11g

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Questions about substringing

What is substringing the present participle and gerund of?
Substringing is the present participle and gerund of substring.

Words near substringing in the dictionary

  1. substreams
  2. substriate
  3. substriated
  4. substring
  5. substringed
  6. substringing
  7. substrings
  8. substruct
  9. substructed
  10. substructing
  11. substruction

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Adapted from Wiktionary: substringing (page history and authors); substring (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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