roaming

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊmɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊmɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊmɪŋ

roaming

1. present participle and gerund of roam

roaming (countable and uncountable, plural roamings)

1. (countable) An instance of wandering.
   • 2009 February 15, Judith Martin, “It Started in Naples”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 16 June 2022:

     That last problem did intrude on Hazzard’s roamings, and when she refers to the living city it is with periodic references to thefts of cars and wallets, with a warning not to carry anything “snatchable” by the thieves on motorcycles who whiz through the streets.

2. (uncountable, telecommunications) The ability to use a cell phone outside of its original registering zone.
3. (uncountable, computing, telecommunications) The use of a network or service from different locations or devices.
4. (uncountable, computing, operating system) Using the OS service of manipulating folders and documents from different PC devices by a registered user.

• → Spanish: roaming
• → Polish: roaming
• → Romanian: roaming

• moringa

Borrowed from English roaming.

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roaming m (invariable)

1. (computing, telecommunications) roaming

Unadapted borrowing from English roaming.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔw.miŋk/
• Rhymes: -ɔwmiŋk
• Syllabification: roa‧ming

roaming m inan

1. (computing, telecommunications) roaming (using a cell phone outside of its original registering zone)

• “roaming”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Unadapted borrowing from English roaming.

roaming n (uncountable)

1. roaming

Unadapted borrowing from English roaming.

• IPA^(key): /ˈromin/ [ˈro.mĩn]
• Rhymes: -omin

roaming m (plural roamings)

1. roaming (telephony)

• According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.