logging

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The activity of cutting down trees, especially for timber or commercial wood.

   Decades of logging stripped the old-growth forest from the ridge.

   The company expanded its logging into areas once set aside for wildlife.

   Similarfelling, lumbering, timbering

   Note

   Usually a mass noun for the work or the industry as a whole, as in decades of logging. It can also be counted. The plural then names separate cutting operations, each with its own place and extent: the loggings were spread over large areas, mainly near the few roads. Use the plural for distinct sites or episodes, and the bare noun for the activity itself.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The act of recording information as sequential entries in a log or register.

   Strict logging of every patient's medication prevented dangerous mistakes.

   The ship's mate kept up the logging of wind and position through the night.

   Similarrecording, documentation, registration

3. 3
   verb

   Present participle of log.

   The officer is logging every change in the weather as it occurs.

   They are logging long hours at the office this month.

   Note

   One spelling does two jobs: it is the participle in progressive tenses (is logging every change) and the gerund that acts like a noun (logging the data took hours). It covers every sense of the verb, from felling trees to writing in a logbook to covering a distance or speed by the log. As a gerund it shades into nouns for the timber work and record-keeping.

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