cladding
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From clad + -ing. Compare clothing, ultimately from the same source.
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -ædɪŋ
Noun [edit]
cladding (countable and uncountable; plural claddings)
- (rare) Clothing; clothes.
- Any hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection, such as the plastic sheath around an optical fiber.
- (construction) a weatherproof, insulating or decorative covering fixed to the outside of a building (called siding in the US).
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Verb [edit]
cladding
- Present participle of clad.
