# bucketing

Pronunciation: say "BUK-it-ing" /ˈbʌkɪtɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of bucket. — present participle and gerund of bucket
   - Simple: The -ing form of bucket. Use it after am, is, are, was or were, or to name the action.
   - _The support team is bucketing tickets by urgency before assigning them._
   - _Bucketing the data into age groups made the trends easier to see._

## Noun

2. A data pre-processing technique in which values are sorted into a set of ranges.
   - Simple: A way of preparing data by sorting numbers into groups.
   - _Before training the model, the team applied bucketing to customer income, reducing it to five bands._
   - _A coarser bucketing hides outliers but makes the chart easier to read._
3. The act of moving material from one place to another with a bucket.
   - Simple: Moving stuff from one place to another with a bucket.
   - _The leaky hull needed constant bucketing to keep the boat afloat._
   - _After weeks of muddy bucketings, the crew finally got a pump for the trench._
4. A heavy downpour of liquid, such as a deluge of rain.
   - Simple: A lot of liquid, like rain, pouring down hard.
   - _Halfway up the trail we took a serious bucketing and were soaked to the skin._
   - _The overflow pipe gave the patio a bucketing every time the tank filled._

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