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interning

Sayin-TUR-ningUS/ɪnˈtɝnɪŋ//ɪnˈtɜːnɪŋ/

2 meanings of interning

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  1. 1
    verb
    The -ing form of intern. Use it after am, is, are, was or were, or to name the action.

    She is interning at a hospital this summer.

    Interning at the museum gave him useful skills.

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  2. 2
    noununcountable
    A way to save memory by keeping one shared copy of each equal value and pointing to it instead of copying.

    Like a library keeping one copy of a popular book and letting everyone share it, instead of buying a new copy for each reader.

    Interning lets the program keep just one copy of each repeated word.

    Thanks to interning, two equal strings can share the same spot in memory.

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interning is a form of intern

intern, verb: To work at a job, often unpaid, in order to gain experience and training in a field. Full entry

Forms
interninterns he/she/itinterning -ing forminterned past tense, past participle
Spelling
intern → interning: add -ing

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