COMPILING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compiling mean? 

• COMPILING (noun)
  The noun COMPILING has 1 sense:

1. the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list)

  Familiarity information: COMPILING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPILING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

compilation; compiling

Context example:

the job of compiling the inventory took several hours

Hypernyms ("compiling" is a kind of...):

aggregation; assembling; collecting; collection (the act of gathering something together)

Derivation:

compile (put together out of existing material)

 Context examples 

By compiling data on microbial diversity and concentration, researchers estimated the deep biosphere has twice the volume of all of Earth's oceans and its mass is hundreds of times greater than that of all humans on the surface.

(Researchers Create New Model of Ecosystem Hidden Beneath Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)