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telnetting

telnetting is the present participle and gerund of telnet.

Meaning of telnet

Verb

telnet (third-person singular simple present telnets, present participle telnetting or telneting, simple past and past participle telnetted or telneted)

  1. (intransitive) To use such a program to make such a connection.
    • I've been running tin with nano in Terminal in my Mac since 2003, and before then, by telnetting in to my university's server, which I first started doing as a first year undergrad in September 1993.2014 February 8, Király, “Newsreaders”, in comp.sys.mac.comm (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Dec 2025

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Questions about telnetting

What is telnetting the present participle and gerund of?
Telnetting is the present participle and gerund of telnet.

Words near telnetting in the dictionary

  1. telneted
  2. telneting
  3. telnets
  4. telnettable
  5. telnetted
  6. telnetting
  7. telnyashka
  8. telnyashkas
  9. telnyashki
  10. telo-
  11. teloanamorphic

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