Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of range
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.
2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184
nounranging (countable and uncountable, plural rangings)
plural rangings
- countableuncountableThe act of one who ranges.
[…] the elite warrior class and their sexual rangings in pursuit of extratribal wives […]
1999, Patricia Riles Wickman, The Tree that Bends - countableuncountableA back-and-forth movement.
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“ranging.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ranging. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ranging,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ranging.
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