platforming

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of platform.

   The network was criticized for platforming a known extremist.

   She defended platforming the protesters as a matter of free debate.

   Note

   Nearly every verb behind it takes a direct object, and the object shows which meaning is in play. Platforming a train means bringing it alongside a station platform. Platforming a film means opening it in a few theaters first, and platforming a speaker or topic means giving it visibility. The same spelling also works as a noun, as in the video-game sense, where no object follows.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   In video games, play that consists of making a character leap from one platform to the next.

   Like leaping from rooftop to rooftop, judging each gap before you jump.

   The game's platforming demands precise timing and quick reflexes.

   Veteran players praised the platforming for its tight, responsive controls.

   Note

   Built from platform plus -ing, the word turns the surfaces a game character stands on into the name of what the player does with them. It is a mass noun: a game has a lot of platforming or very little, never a platforming. Players and reviewers judge it as one strand of play among others, set against the occasional puzzle.

3. 3
   noununcountable

   The platforms at a railway station, considered collectively.

   Engineers extended the platforming to accommodate the new twelve-car services.

   The renovation added shelters and seating across the station's platforming.

   Note

   A railway planner's word that treats a station's platforms as one arrangement rather than counting them one by one. It belongs to operations writing: Trains in 1961 described how the rationalised platforming at Liverpool Street made a new departure sheet possible. As a collective it takes no plural, so engineers extend the platforming, not the platformings.

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