Revving

Definitions

1. The act by which an engine is revved.
   countable, uncountable
2. A technique for reducing web page loading times by assigning far-future expiration dates to the resources on the page (so that the browser caches them indefinitely) and, if changes are needed, using different filenames for those resources.
   Internet, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] we finally arrived in El Obeid […] after doing the last⟳ sixty miles in third gear, with frequent revvings in neutral to keep⟳ the engine going.”

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