ranging

English

Verb

ranging

1. present participle and gerund of range
   • 2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184:

     In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.

Derived terms

• free-ranging
• long-ranging
• ranging pole
• ranging rod
• rump-ranging
• wide-ranging

 

Noun

ranging (countable and uncountable, plural rangings)

1. The act of one who ranges.
   • 1999, Patricia Riles Wickman, The Tree that Bends:

     […] the elite warrior class and their sexual rangings in pursuit of extratribal wives […]

2. A back-and-forth movement.

Anagrams

• graning