Usually means: Verb tense indicating ongoing action.
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  1. the present continuous (tense): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  2. present continuous: Wiktionary
  3. present continuous: Dictionary.com
  4. Present continuous (English), Present continuous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (present continuous)

noun:  (grammar) A tense that describes an ongoing action in the present. In English it is formed by use of a form of be with a present participle.

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