Meaning & use
Gating
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The act or technique of controlling access to something, such as restricting features, content, or signals until certain conditions are met.
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The app relies on feature gating to release new tools gradually to select users.
Engineers used noise gating to cut out background hiss from the recording.
A note on using this word
The word appears across very different fields, from electronics (signal gating) to software (feature gating) to older British university slang, where "gating" meant confining a student to campus as punishment.
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2. verb
To confine a student to the grounds of a college as a disciplinary measure (dated, chiefly British).
He was gated for a fortnight after missing curfew twice.
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