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ongoing

adj

Etymology

From on + going, related to the phrasal verb go on.

  1. inherited from going
  2. derived from *gēną✻
  3. inherited from *gēndz✻
  4. inherited from gānde
  5. inherited from goinge
  6. formed as ongoing — “on + going”

Definitions

  1. Continuing, permanent, lasting.

    • "Major refurbishments will be made over the next ten years. We have nine wooden viaducts along the line - it's an ongoing programme," he says.

  2. Presently or currently happening

    Presently or currently happening; being in progress.

  3. Something that is going on

    Something that is going on; a happening.

    • We shall not be concerned here with the specific electrical or chemical changes that take place, but only with the fact of continuous ongoings as one of the elements for building a format of dynamic structure.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. present participle and gerund of ongo

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

8 hops · closes at ongoing

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA