tapering

1. 1.

   the act of gradually lowering the size or amount

   “the doctor prescribed the tapering of the dose”

   Broaderlowering

Other forms of tapering

plural

taperings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tapering

What does tapering mean?

tapering means "becoming gradually narrower". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tapering?

tapering has 3 syllables: ta-pe-ring. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /ˈteɪpɚɪŋ/.

What is another word for tapering?

Close synonyms include tapered, narrowing, dwindling, tapering off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tapering a common word?

tapering is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.