cladding

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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).

Translations

an outside building covering

• Bulgarian: облицовка (bg) f (oblicóvka), обшивка (bg) f (obšívka)
• Finnish: verhous
• Maori: tūpuni
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kledning (no) m or f

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

Verb

cladding

1. present participle of clad