learning
An act in which something is learned.
Noun
- An act in which something is learned.
- Accumulated knowledge.
- The department head was also a scholar of great learning.
- Something that has been learned.
- “We’ll take the learnings and apply them to the rest of our business.” - 2007 April 5, Stuart Elliott, “Online Experiment for Print Magazine”, in New York Times:
Origin
From Middle English lernyng, lernynge, from Old English leornung (“learning, study”), from Proto-West Germanic *liʀnungu (“learning”), equivalent to learn + -ing. Cognate with Old Saxon lernunga, German Lernung.
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Verb
- present participle and gerund of learn
- I'm learning to ride a unicycle.
- The system is still learning though, and will improve how it handles situations thanks to crowd-sourced data from across the Mercedes network. - 2024 May 4, Mat Gallagher, “I tried Mercedes’ new autonomous driving in...