onlining
- 1Present participle of online.
Engineers are onlining the cooling pumps one at a time.
Onlining the database cluster restored service to thousands of users.
Note
This -ing form belongs to a verb that shares its spelling with the familiar adjective online, and it stays in the adjective's world of grids, servers and running systems. It is transitive, so there is always something being brought up: onlining a generator, a cluster, a set of pumps. The final e of online drops before -ing, as line becomes lining. As a gerund it names the operation itself, the way technical writing tends to use it.
onlining is a form of online
online, verb: To bring a system into an active, running state, often by connecting it to a network. Full entry
- Spelling
- online → onlining: drop the e, add -ing
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