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• present participle of model.

modeling

American  

[mod-l-ing] / ˈmɒd l ɪŋ /

especially British, modelling

noun

• modelings
  plural

1. the act, art, or profession of a person who models.

2. the process of producing sculptured form with some plastic material, as clay.

3. the technique of rendering the illusion of volume on a two-dimensional surface by shading.

4. the treatment of volume, as the turning of a form, in sculpture.

5. the representation, often mathematical, of a process, concept, or operation of a system, often implemented by a computer program.

6. Also called imitation.  Psychology. therapy in which a particular behavior is elicited by the observation of similar behavior in others.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• modelings
  plural

Etymology

Origin of modeling

First recorded in 1575–85; model + -ing ¹

Explanation

Modeling involves making a representation of something. Creating a tiny, functioning volcano is an example of modeling. Teachers use modeling when they have a class election that represents a larger one, like a presidential election. Modeling is anything that represents something else, usually on a smaller scale. Military commanders use physical and computer modeling to plan offensives. Modeling is helpful because it allows you to take a good look at something that is too big or impractical to see otherwise. If a tall beautiful person tells you he has a modeling career, he’s not a miniature version of something, but he does make money being a model. Outside the US, it’s often spelled with two l’s.

Example Sentences

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His previous feature, 2016’s love-it-or-hate-it loony toon “The Neon Demon,” was a modeling industry semi-satire that featured beauties quite literally gobbling up their ingenue competition.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

Those with skills in large language modeling get offers at the higher end of the scale, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Analysts tracked by FactSet were modeling roughly 42% growth for the September quarter.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

Alongside the laboratory tests, the researchers used mathematical modeling to examine the frying process in greater detail.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

This many- party prisoner’s dilemma is useful in modeling situations where the economic value of “intangibles” such as clean water, air, and space is an issue.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

So, and my second question, which I thought it was an intuitive question that should be followed up — is the wobbling of the earth included in any of your modelings?

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2014

Professor Lios insists that all analogies between genuine primitive art and the drawings or modelings of children are unsuccessful.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here all her water-courses, wet or dry, are deep grooves in the soil, with striking and pretty carvings and modelings adorning their vertical sides.

From Time and Change by John Burroughs

But death had touched it and consecrated it, bringing out delicate modelings and purity of outline never seen before—doing what life and love and great sorrow and deep womanhood joys might have done for Ruby.

From Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

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