revving

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Verb

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revving

  1. present participle and gerund of rev
  2. present participle and gerund of revv

Noun

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revving (countable and uncountable, plural revvings)

  1. The act by which an engine is revved.
    • 1954, Anthony Mann, Where God Laughed: The Sudan Today, page 88:
      [] we finally arrived in El Obeid [] after doing the last sixty miles in third gear, with frequent revvings in neutral to keep the engine going.
  2. (Internet, uncountable) A technique for reducing web page loading times by assigning far-future expiration dates to the resources on the page (so that the browser caches them indefinitely) and, if changes are needed, using different filenames for those resources.