Definition of "containing" []

• Present participle of contain. (verb)

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• "Such consistent regulations as “i before e except after c” and “if this is the beginning of the sentence, then there needs to be a capital letter” represent the rules that you invoke when you come across a pattern, such as a word containing the consecutive letters “e” and “i.”"
• "Induction is said by Aristotle to be [Greek: hoia phanton], but he says in the same place that for this reason we must _conceive_ ([Greek: noehin]) the term containing the particular Instances (as A B C above) as composed of all the Individuals."
• "The chief difficulty of a question under debate rests in defining the meaning of the term containing the main idea controverted."