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templating

templating is the present participle and gerund of template.

Meaning of template

Verb

template (third-person singular simple present templates, present participle templating, simple past and past participle templated)

  1. To set up or mark off using a template.
    • Only that part of the floor timber that bears on the planking and keel need be templated; […]1994, Howard I. Chapelle, Boatbuilding, →ISBN, page 368
  2. To provide a template or pattern for.
    • Metal phosphates that are templated by transition-metal complexes are rare.2003, Yu Wang et al., “Synthesis and characterization of a new layered gallium phosphate templated by cobalt complex”, in Journal of Solid State Chemistry, volume 170, number 1, →DOI
  3. (transitive, molecular biology) To synthesize by means of a template.

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Questions about templating

What is templating the present participle and gerund of?
Templating is the present participle and gerund of template.

Words near templating in the dictionary

  1. templater
  2. templaters
  3. templates
  4. templatic
  5. templatically
  6. templating
  7. templation
  8. templatise
  9. templatised
  10. templatises
  11. templatising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: templating (page history and authors); template (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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