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trialling

trialling verb: (Canadian spelling, common) present participle and gerund of trial.

Verb

trialling

  1. (UK) (Canadian spelling, common) present participle and gerund of trial

Noun

trialling (usually uncountable, plural triallings)

  1. (usually) The process of running a trial; an experiment or pilot.
    • Barker's proposal to try out new equipment before mass introduction should also have been heeded, because traction components bought without trialling for the Glasgow and Great Eastern schemes gave trouble.2020 July 29, David Clough, “AC/DC: the big switch in power supply”, in Rail, page 65
  2. (usually) The running of trial races, especially for horses or greyhounds.

Forms of trialling

pluraltriallings

Questions about trialling

What does trialling mean?
Trialling means (Canadian spelling, common) present participle and gerund of trial.
What part of speech is trialling?
Trialling can be a verb or a noun.

Words near trialling in the dictionary

  1. triallelic
  2. triallelism
  3. trialler
  4. triallers
  5. trialless
  6. trialling
  7. triallings
  8. triallist
  9. triallists
  10. triallyl
  11. trialog

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