WikiWord

English

ratcheting

verb

Meaning

  1. To cause to become incremented or decremented.
  2. To increment or decrement.
  3. The act by which something is ratcheted.
  4. A conjurers' trick of bending an object back and forth to induce metal fatigue, so that it can be broken later by rubbing it.

Etymology / origin

No prose etymology has been added yet.

No ancestor words have been linked yet.

Related words

Descendant words

No descendant words have been linked yet.

Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
ratcheting — meaning and etymology | WikiWord