👉 The term "copending" is a technical term used in computer science and linguistics. It refers to two or more documents that have been submitted for review, but are not yet published or available for public use. The term was introduced by J. M. W. Turner and John P. Luce in the 1970s. In the context of software development, copending means that a certain piece of code has already been written and is being reviewed before it can be used
