targeting

Pluraltargetings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of target. Use this -ing form for an action happening now.

   The store is targeting families with young children.

   They keep targeting the same customers over and over.

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2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   An act of choosing a person or thing to aim at or focus on.

   The careful targeting of the ads reached the right people.

   Their targeting of weak points in the defense paid off.

3. 3
   adjective

   Helping to move a protein to the right place in or out of a part of a cell.

   Like an address label that tells where to send a package.

   The targeting signal helps the cell send the protein to the right spot.

   A broken targeting sequence sends the protein to the wrong place.

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