cladding
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From clad + -ing. Compare clothing, ultimately from the same source.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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 fibre.
- (construction) A weatherproof, insulating or decorative covering fixed to the outside of a building (called siding in the US).
TranslationsEdit
an outside building covering
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VerbEdit
cladding