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Ranging vs Ranged - What's the difference?

ranging | ranged |

As verbs the difference between ranging and ranged

is that ranging is present participle of lang=en while ranged is past tense of range.

As a noun ranging

is act of one who ranges.

As an adjective ranged is

whose range can be adjusted.

ranging

English

Verb

(head)
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=Kevin Heng
    • , title= Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily? , volume=101, issue=3, page=184, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Act of one who ranges.
  • * 1999 , Patricia Riles Wickman, The Tree that Bends

    • ranged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (range)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of a projectile, or projectile system) whose range can be adjusted

    • Derived terms

    * ranged weapon

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