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truing up

truing up is the present participle and gerund of true up.

Meaning of true up

Verb

true up (third-person singular simple present trues up, present participle trueing up or truing up, simple past and past participle trued up)

  1. To make something true, equal, or correct, as for example by turning and facing a part on a lathe.
    • He trued up his faceplate before doing the next setup.
  2. To make a wheel level, balanced or even by adjusting the spokes; to true a wheel; ideally, to make it perfectly circular in relation to the hub with no left or right bulges nor 'flat spots'.

Questions about truing up

What is truing up the present participle and gerund of?
Truing up is the present participle and gerund of true up.

Words near truing up in the dictionary

  1. Trughanacmy
  2. Trugrede
  3. trugs
  4. Truim
  5. truing
  6. truing up
  7. truings
  8. truish
  9. truism
  10. truismatic
  11. truisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: truing up (page history and authors); true up (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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