typing

Etymology

noun

1. Assigning or classification by type.
2. The act of typing on a keyboard.
   My memory of him in the office at Peterborough was the ferocious nature of his typing, on a manual machine of course. This was long before the days of desktop publishing, and you could hear him down the corridor absolutely hammering the keyboard. January 25 2023, Howard Johnston, “Peter Kelly: August 2 1944-December 28 2022”, in RAIL, number 975, page 47

verb

1. present participle and gerund of type