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shimming

verb

Etymology

From shim + -ing.

  1. borrowed from ^심(沈)
  2. suffixed as shimming — “shim + ing”

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of shim

  2. Applying one or more shims to an assembly to adjust the position of one or more of its…

    Applying one or more shims to an assembly to adjust the position of one or more of its parts.

    • It may take some shimming to get everything perfectly aligned.

  3. The act of fraudulently copying a chip from a chip-and-pin card, such as found on credit…

    The act of fraudulently copying a chip from a chip-and-pin card, such as found on credit cards and bank cards, through the use of a shimmer

    • They were arrested and charged in connection with multiple shimming incidents.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for shimming. 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