Used in a Sentence

pegging

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for pegging.

Editorial note

It never will be, unless central banks start pegging their currency to Bitcoin, or start pegging Bitcoin to their currency (which they could do if they wanted).

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The act of fastening with a peg.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of pegging gathered in one view.

noun

The act of fastening with a peg.

noun

Pegs collectively.

noun

The activity of artificial climbing on crags and in quarries outside the main mountain areas.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pegging.

noun

The act of fastening with a peg.

noun

Pegs collectively.

noun

The activity of artificial climbing on crags and in quarries outside the main mountain areas.

noun

Determined perseverance in work; pegging away.

Example sentences

1

It never will be, unless central banks start pegging their currency to Bitcoin, or start pegging Bitcoin to their currency (which they could do if they wanted).

2

In those markets a bitcoin exchange, linked to say a dollar-pegging service like Bitreserve, is an interesting use case.

3

Our rebuild process can take a couple hours, and while it does that it's pegging the disk.

4

Nit picks: - iBooks uses up 100% of CPU randomly by pegging storeacountd, even without internet access.

5

Also, complaining about speculation-caused instability and then claiming that pegging the value of Bitcoin to gold would solve it is hilarious.

6

This lead to low definition video becoming choppy while pegging your CPU at 100%.

7

Basically what just happened was 3 years of price changed bottled up into 2 days, because the Swiss stopped pegging the price.

8

The merits of pegging local currencies in such a way are very doubtful.

9

The SNB was pegging the currency at an artificial fixed rate v.

10

But Urbit has been pegging my bogometer for a very long time.

11

I haven't really thought about the idea of pegging crypto-currencies to something.

12

A while ago, the Chinese figured out that by pegging their money to the USD they could simply print more money, pay people more, and their citizens would flourish.

Quote examples

1

In general though, pegging a currency by any group other than a government seems to require that the "peggers" actually possess the asset.

2

Pegging against "wall time" in Chile causes it's own problems.

3

Currently using 5.4GB of RAM (OSX is reporting a "Compressed Mem" of 2.96GB), and it's currently pegging one of the cores of the i7 on this thing.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use pegging in a sentence?

It never will be, unless central banks start pegging their currency to Bitcoin, or start pegging Bitcoin to their currency (which they could do if they wanted).

What does pegging mean?

The act of fastening with a peg.

What part of speech is pegging?

pegging is commonly used as noun.