ranging

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of range
    In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. 2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184

noun

  1. The act of one who ranges.
    […] the elite warrior class and their sexual rangings in pursuit of extratribal wives […] 1999, Patricia Riles Wickman, The Tree that Bends
  2. A back-and-forth movement.

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