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undercranking

undercranking is the present participle and gerund of undercrank.

Meaning of undercrank

Verb

undercrank (third-person singular simple present undercranks, present participle undercranking, simple past and past participle undercranked)

  1. To shoot a scene while advancing the film in the camera more slowly than it will advance on playback. This results in speeding up the action in the final film.
    Antonyms:
    overcrank

Questions about undercranking

What is undercranking the present participle and gerund of?
Undercranking is the present participle and gerund of undercrank.

Words near undercranking in the dictionary

  1. undercrafted
  2. undercrafting
  3. undercrafts
  4. undercrank
  5. undercranked
  6. undercranking
  7. undercranks
  8. undercreative
  9. undercreep
  10. undercreeping
  11. undercreeps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undercranking (page history and authors); undercrank (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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