marking

== English == === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɑɹkɪŋ/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɑːkɪŋ/ Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kɪŋ === Etymology 1 === From Middle English marking, merking, merkunge, from Old English mearcung, from Proto-West Germanic *markungu, equivalent to mark +‎ -ing. ==== Noun ==== marking (countable and uncountable, plural markings) The action of marking. A mark. The characteristic colouration and patterning of an animal. A symbol or set of letters used to identify the type or identity of an object. (graph theory) Any configuration of a Petri net with a number of marks or tokens distributed across it. ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== marking present participle and gerund of mark