muting

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noun

The process by which something is muted or silenced.

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Meanings

muting1

nounmuting (plural mutings)

plural mutings

  1. The process by which something is muted or silenced.

    Film and dance theory offer a productive vocabulary for considering the effects of these mutings and deafenings.

    2012, Gary Taylor, Trish Thomas Henley, The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton, page 338

muting2

nounmuting (plural mutings)

plural mutings

  1. The dung of birds.

    It is more surprising that instinct should lead small nesting birds to remove their broken eggs and the early mutings, […]

    a. 1883, Charles Darwin, “Appendix”, in George John Romanes, Mental Evolution in Animals. […] With a Posthumous Essay on Instinct. By Charles Darwin, […], London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., […], published 1883, →OCLC, page 379
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of mute
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APA

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MLA

“muting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muting. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “muting,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muting.

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