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pruning

noun
/ˈpɹuːnɪŋ/

Etymology

From prune + -ing.

  1. derived from προῦνον
  2. derived from prūnum
  3. derived from *prūna✻
  4. derived from prune
  5. inherited from prune
  6. suffixed as pruning — “prune + -ing”

Definitions

  1. A removal of excess material from a tree or shrub.

  2. Something obtained by pruning, as a twig.

  3. A method of enumeration that allows the cutting out of parts of a decision tree.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. present participle and gerund of prune

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pruning. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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