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revving

revving ‎(plural revvings)

The act by which an engine is revved.
- 1954, Anthony Mann, Where God Laughed: The Sudan Today (page 88)
  […] 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.
(Internet) 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.