Present participle of bucket: the act of carrying or transporting something in buckets, or moving roughly.
From 'bucket' plus the present participle suffix '-ing,' indicating the ongoing action of using buckets.
In data science, 'bucketing' refers to organizing numerical data into groups or ranges, a term that echoes this old physical meaning of dividing materials into bucket-sized portions.
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