existing adj

1 having existence or being or actuality; "an attempt to refine the existent machinery to make it more efficient"; "much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran" [syn: existent] [ant: nonexistent]

2 existing in something specified; "depletion of the oxygen existing in the bloodstream"

3 presently existing; "the existing system"

English

Pronunciation

Verb

existing

1. present participle of exist

Adjective

1. that exists, or has existence, especially that exists now

Translations

• Finnish: olemassa oleva

Exist may stand for:

• Exist Global is a software engineering services firm that develops, designs and delivers enterprise-class products and cutting-edge web applications for some of the world’s most successful businesses, including a number of Fortune 500 companies
• EXIST NASA proposed Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope (EXIST)
• eXist, an open source database management system built on XML
• to exist, a verb. See existence.

actual, alive, around, as is, being, contemporaneous, contemporary, current, existent, extant, fresh, immanent, immediate, in being, in effect, in existence, in force, instant, latest, living, modern, new, on foot, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, prevalent, running, subsistent, subsisting, that be, that is, topical, under the sun, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute