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marking

Pronunciation: /ˈmɑɹkɪŋ/

The English word “marking” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The action of marking.
  2. A mark.
  3. The characteristic colouration and patterning of an animal.
  4. A symbol or set of letters used to identify the type or identity of an object.
  5. Any configuration of a Petri net with a number of marks or tokens distributed across it.

Etymology

From Middle English marking, merking, merkunge, from Old English mearcung, from Proto-West Germanic *markungu, equivalent to mark + -ing.

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