Home › Words › E › ekingekingeking means the act or process of adding.EtymologyFrom Middle English *eking, *eching, deverbal of eken (“to increase, add”), equivalent to eke + -ing. More at eke.nounThe act or process of adding.That which is added.A supplementary piece of timber used to lengthen another.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.adding 67% match — An act of addition. vs eking →adjection 64% match — Act of adjecting or adding, or the thing added. vs eking →addition 63% match — The act of adding anything. vs eking →appending 61% match — The act by which something is appended. vs eking →eke 61% match — An addition. vs eking →adjunction 61% match — The act of joining; the thing joined or added. vs eking →insertion 60% match — The act of inserting, or something inserted. vs eking →appendation 59% match — The process of appending; the process of attaching or affixing something to something else. vs eking →