Usually means: Catching a brief, quick view.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word glimpsing:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. glimpsing: Merriam-Webster
  2. glimpsing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. glimpsing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Glimpsing, glimpsing: Wordnik
  5. glimpsing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. glimpsing: Wiktionary
  7. Glimpsing, glimpsing: Dictionary.com
  8. glimpsing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Glimpsing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Glimpsing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. glimpsing: FreeDictionary.org
  12. glimpsing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glimpsing: Legal dictionary

(Note: See glimpse as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (glimpse)

verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To see or view (someone, or something tangible) briefly and incompletely.
verb:  (figurative) To perceive (something intangible) briefly and incompletely.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  Chiefly followed by at or upon: to look at briefly and incompletely; to glance.
verb:  To shine with a faint, unsteady light; to glimmer, to shimmer.
verb:  (archaic or poetic) To appear or start to appear, especially faintly or unclearly; to dawn.
verb:  (rare) Sometimes followed by out: to provide a brief and incomplete look.
noun:  Chiefly followed by of: a brief and incomplete look.
noun:  (archaic) A brief, sudden flash of light; a glimmer.
noun:  (figurative)
noun:  A faint or imprecise idea; an inkling.
noun:  (rare) A brief, unspecified amount of time; a moment.
noun:  (obsolete) A faint (and often temporary) appearance; a tinge.
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