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pres'ent par'ticiple
Gram.a participle form, in English having the suffix
-ing, denoting repetition or duration of an activity or event: used as an adjective, as in
the growing weeds, and in forming progressive verb forms, as in
The weeds are growing.Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.