ranging

The act of one who ranges.

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.

Forms

rangings

Derived

bushranging overranging

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...

Derived

autoranging free-ranging long-ranging nonranging ranging pole ranging rod rump-ranging wide-ranging