Spotting
noun, verb
noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A spotted pattern.
"Symptoms consist of various foliage spottings and blotchings."
- 2 the act of detecting something; catching sight of something wordnet
- 3 The act of spotting or sighting something.
"Although the NVA went to great lengths to conceal the locations of their artillery, they had to expose them at the time of firing. Less reliable than visual spottings were electronic intercepts […]"
- 4 the act of spotting or staining something wordnet
- 5 Vaginal spotting, the discharge of blood from the vagina at a time outside of one's usual menses.
"Subchorionic bleeding […] can cause light to heavy spotting but doesn't always (sometimes it is only detected during a routine ultrasound)."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of spot form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"It must also be said that spotting what is important in current science is a matter of judgement, one cannot know that one is right."
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