The present participle of bin; the action of throwing something away or placing it in a trash container.
From 'bin' used as a verb with present participle ending '-ing'; British English formation from mid-20th century onward as 'bin' became established as a common verb.
In statistics, 'binning' means dividing continuous data into categories (bins)—so the same word describes both throwing out garbage and organizing vast datasets, showing how metaphors travel between everyday life and science.
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