HIGHLIGHTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does highlighting mean? 

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

1. an area of lightness in a picture

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGHLIGHTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An area of lightness in a picture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

highlight; highlighting

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

light; lightness (the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures)

Derivation:

highlight (move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent)

 Context examples 

The difficult new moon of last month, October 27, was in Scorpio, highlighting a work project which may have hit a jarring curve.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Ongoing work shows that a reef's health can alter the number and type of microbes in seawater, say the scientists, highlighting the consequences of altering reef habitats.

(Bacteria living near coral reefs change in synchrony across distances, National Science Foundation)

The shockwave begins around the point where the jet appears to curve down, highlighting the regions where the fast-moving particles are colliding with gas in the galaxy and slowing down.

(The Giant Galaxy Around the Giant Black Hole, NASA)

A member of the Europa Clipper science team, McGrath delivered a presentation to fellow team scientists, highlighting other Hubble observations of Europa.

(Old Data Reveal New Evidence of Europa Plumes, NASA)

MSD scientists were instrumental in highlighting how the proteomic genetic data could be used for drug discovery.

(Scientists create ‘genetic atlas’ of proteins in human blood, University of Cambridge)

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown mechanism that causes increased water use in forests, advancing our understanding of forest water cycles and highlighting threats to plants from water stress, as happens from acid rain.

(Previously unknown mechanism causes increased forest water use, National Science Foundation)

For example, in addition to highlighting potential side-effects, findings of the study can further aid drug development through novel insights on protein targets of new and existing drugs.

(Scientists create ‘genetic atlas’ of proteins in human blood, University of Cambridge)