ranging

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ranging

verb

gerund, participle, present present 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.

noun rangings

countable, uncountable The act of one who ranges. […] the elite warrior class and their sexual rangings in pursuit of extratribal wives […]
countable, uncountable A back-and-forth movement.

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Closest in meaning: compass, stove, place, drift, chain, orbit, rove, ambit, crop, pasture, array, scope, lay out, straddle, order, grasp

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@misc{ranging_2026,
  title = {ranging},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ranging},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}