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bucketing

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Noun

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bucketing (countable and uncountable, plural bucketings)

  1. The act of moving material using a bucket.
    • 1870, Henry Julian Hunter, Inquiry on the state of the Dwellings of Rural Labourers, page 142:
      [] by means of a spade only, without any of the filthy ladlings and bucketings which accompany the clearing a cesspool.
  2. A heavy pouring down of liquid; a deluge.
    • 2017, Don Reis, The Glorious Effervescence of Blubbo, page 66:
      [] it was still obviously still pouring not to[sic] far away and they hoped to complete their journey without being further delayed by another bucketing.
  3. Synonym of binning (data pre-processing technique)

Verb

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bucketing

  1. present participle and gerund of bucket

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