rebooting

Sayree-BOOT-ingUS/ˌɹiˈbutɪŋ/UK/ˌɹiːˈbuːtɪŋ/

Pluralrebootings

2 meanings of rebooting

1
nouncountable or uncountable
The act of restarting a computer or other system, or of relaunching a creative work like a film series from scratch.
The technician recommended a full rebooting to clear the system's memory.
The studio announced a rebooting of the classic film series for next summer.
Similarrestart, relaunch
2
verb
Present participle of reboot.
The IT team is rebooting every workstation tonight.
Rebooting the affected servers restored access within minutes.
Note
Two jobs share this -ing form. After be it builds the progressive, and because reboot works both ways, the subject can be the person or the machine: the team is rebooting the server, or the server is rebooting. As a gerund it keeps a direct object (rebooting the servers helped), which separates it from the noun for the act, which takes of and has a plural, rebootings.
The server is rebooting after the update.
Rebooting the router fixed the connection.

rebooting is a form of reboot

reboot, verb: To run a computer's startup sequence again, resetting it and reloading the operating system, often after a crash. Full entry

Forms: rebootreboots he/she/itrebooting -ing formrebooted past tense, past participle
Spelling: reboot → rebooting: add -ing

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