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fleeting

adj
/ˈfliːtɪŋ/

Etymology

From Middle English fleten (“to float”), from Old English flēotan (“to float”), from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-. By surface analysis, fleet + -ing.

  1. derived from *plewd-✻
  2. inherited from *fleutaną✻
  3. inherited from flēotan
  4. inherited from fleten

Definitions

  1. Passing quickly

    Passing quickly; of short duration.

    • During the fleeting summer months of his field season, when the outer vestiges of winter melted briefly, there were ponds and pools and lakes of water everywhere.

  2. That which flees, especially quickly

    That which flees, especially quickly; fugitive.

  3. An automatic operation mode of an absolute signal that reserves a route for several…

    An automatic operation mode of an absolute signal that reserves a route for several trains following one another, without the need for dispatcher to re-set the route for each train.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. present participle and gerund of fleet

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fleeting. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at fleeting. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at fleeting

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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