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unspecifying

unspecifying is the present participle and gerund of unspecify.

Meaning of unspecify

Verb

unspecify (third-person singular simple present unspecifies, present participle unspecifying, simple past and past participle unspecified)

  1. (transitive) To undo the specification of.
    • If you want to unspecify a shader in a program (that is, no longer use it), just give its vertex, fragment, tessellation, or geometry command with no arguments.2016, Mike Bailey, Steve Cunningham, Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice, Second Edition, page 78

Questions about unspecifying

What is unspecifying the present participle and gerund of?
Unspecifying is the present participle and gerund of unspecify.

Words near unspecifying in the dictionary

  1. unspecified anxiety disorder
  2. unspecified anxiety disorders
  3. unspecifiedly
  4. unspecifies
  5. unspecify
  6. unspecifying
  7. unspeciose
  8. unspecious
  9. unspecked
  10. unspeckled
  11. unspectacled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unspecifying (page history and authors); unspecify (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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