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updating

updating is the present participle and gerund of update.

Meaning of update

Verb

update (third-person singular simple present updates, present participle updating, simple past and past participle updated)

  1. (transitive) To bring (a thing) up to date.
    • I need to update my records to take account of the most recent transaction.
  2. (transitive) To bring (a person) up to date: to inform (a person) about recent developments.
    • Update me on what happened while I was away.
  3. (ambitransitive, Bayesian epistemology) To change one's credence in a proposition in response to new evidence.
    • I need to update on the new data.

See all 8 meanings of update

Noun

updating (plural updatings)

  1. The act by which something is updated.
    • Later manuals in the United States as best illustrated by Sabetti went through many revisions and updatings.1997, Charles E. Curran, The Origins of Moral Theology in the United States, page 81

Forms of updating

pluralupdatings

Phrases with updating

Questions about updating

What does updating mean?
Updating means the act by which something is updated.
What is updating the present participle and gerund of?
Updating is the present participle and gerund of update.
What part of speech is updating?
Updating is a noun.
What is the plural of updating?
The plural of updating is updatings.

Words near updating in the dictionary

  1. updated one's priors
  2. updater
  3. updaters
  4. updates
  5. updates one's priors
  6. updating
  7. updating one's priors
  8. updatings
  9. updation
  10. updations
  11. Updegraff

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Adapted from Wiktionary: updating (page history and authors); update (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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