Downloading

//ˈdaʊnloʊdɪŋ// noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The process by which something is downloaded. countable, uncountable

    "In late 1994, about two million copies had been downloaded, and the rate of new downloadings from the Internet was about 50,000 copies per month."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of download form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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copycopydlinstallmovetake

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"On some OS's you get gibberish for filenames with full-width characters so when downloading please change to a suitable filename."

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