cladding

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From clad +‎ -ing. Compare clothing, ultimately from the same source.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈklædɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ædɪŋ

NounEdit

cladding (countable and uncountable, plural claddings)

1. (rare) Clothing; clothes.
2. Any hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection, such as the plastic sheath around an optical fibre.
3. (construction) A weatherproof, insulating or decorative covering fixed to the outside of a building (called siding in the US).

TranslationsEdit

an outside building covering

• Bulgarian: облицовка (bg) f (oblicóvka), обшивка (bg) f (obšívka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kledning (no) m, f

• Russian: обши́вка (ru) f (obšívka)
• Spanish: revestimiento (es) m

VerbEdit

cladding

1. present participle of clad