unlocking

English

Verb

unlocking

1. present participle of unlock

Noun

unlocking (plural unlockings)

1. The act by which something is unlocked.
   • 1862, Wilkie Collins, No Name

     On the other hand, it was just as probable that these comings and goings, these lockings and unlockings, might be attributable to the existence of some private responsibility, which had unexpectedly intruded itself into the old man's easy existence...