HARVESTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does harvesting mean? 

• HARVESTING (noun)
  The noun HARVESTING has 1 sense:

1. the gathering of a ripened crop

  Familiarity information: HARVESTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARVESTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The gathering of a ripened crop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

harvest; harvest home; harvesting

Hypernyms ("harvesting" is a kind of...):

gather; gathering (the act of gathering something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "harvesting"):

haying (the harvesting of hay)

Derivation:

harvest (gather, as of natural products)

 Context examples 

This increases the voltage associated with the charge stored in the yarn, enabling the harvesting of electricity.

(Energy-Harvesting Yarns Generate Electricity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Squirrels were busy with their small harvesting.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The expansion of a cell line in multiple vessels followed by the harvesting and pooling of the expanded culture into one vessel for holding or storage.

(Cell Culture Pooling, NCI Thesaurus)

These calculations show that the practices of sowing and harvesting water on Sierra Nevada date back about 1,300 years.

(Researchers demonstrate that Sierra Nevada is home to the oldest underground water recharge system in Europe, University of Granada)

In the United States, the Department of Agriculture sets standards for growing, harvesting, processing, and labeling organic foods.

(Organic food, NCI Dictionary)

Most of these water harvesting sites are along the coast but a few are inland—and so are the ahu.

(Scientists report correlation between locations of Easter Island statues and water resources, Wikinews)

But conservation programs limiting timber harvesting have chalked up wins in preserving panda habitat.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

It relies on the IL-2- or IL-4-dependence of a cytotoxic cell line (CTLL-2) for in vitro proliferation, and the measurement of the growth of the these cells is usually determined by tritiated-thymidine incorporation pulsed into the CTLL-2 culture 8-12 hours immediately prior to harvesting the CTLL-2 cells.

(CTLL-2 Assay, NCI Thesaurus)

Using the jumping genes already present in plants to generate new characteristics would be a significant step forward from traditional breeding techniques, making it possible to generate new traits in crops that have traditionally been bred to produce uniform shapes, colours and sizes to make harvesting more efficient and maximise yield.

(Harnessing tomato jumping genes could help speed-breed drought-resistant crops, University of Cambridge)

Speculations have included the idea that the star swallowed a planet that it is unstable, and a more imaginative theory involves a giant contraption or megastructure built by an advanced civilization, which could be harvesting energy from the star and causing its brightness to decrease.

(Mysterious Dimming of Tabby's Star May Be Caused by Dust, NASA)