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shaping

noun

Etymology

From Middle English shapinge, shapende, schapende, schappande, from Old English sċyppende, sċeppende, from Proto-West Germanic *skappjandī, from Proto-Germanic *skapjandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *skapjaną (“to form, shape, create”), equivalent to shape + -ing.

  1. derived from *skapjaną✻ — “to form, shape, create”
  2. inherited from *skapjandz✻
  3. inherited from *skappjandī✻
  4. inherited from sċyppende
  5. inherited from shapinge

Definitions

  1. The action of the verb to shape.

    • In contrast to the (to be sure, productive) shapings and constrainings of human identities in the sociotechnical network, here we have an expansion of identity.

  2. present participle and gerund of shape

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at shaping. 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 shaping. 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 shaping

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