downstreaming
- 1Present participle of downstream.
The plant is downstreaming the raw extract into a finished medicine.
Downstreaming the patched code to community forks is part of the weekly routine.
Note
This -ing form does two jobs. After be it carries the progressive (the maintainers are downstreaming the fix), and in a noun slot it names the activity itself. Whether it takes an object shows which verb is underneath. The software verb is transitive: it takes a version or patch, followed by to and the recipients, such as downstream developers or users. The plain verb, to stream downward, takes no object at all.
downstreaming is a form of downstream
downstream, verb: To make a new version or patch available to the developers and users downstream who depend on the software. Full entry
- Forms
- downstreamdownstreams he/she/itdownstreaming -ing formdownstreamed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- downstream → downstreaming: add -ing
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