marking
Pronunciation: /ˈmɑɹkɪŋ/
The English word “marking” has 5 meanings listed here.
noun
- The action of marking.
- A mark.
- The characteristic colouration and patterning of an animal.
- A symbol or set of letters used to identify the type or identity of an object.
- Any configuration of a Petri net with a number of marks or tokens distributed across it.
Etymology
From Middle English marking, merking, merkunge, from Old English mearcung, from Proto-West Germanic *markungu, equivalent to mark + -ing.
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