latching
English edit
Verb edit
latching
- present participle and gerund of latch
Adjective edit
latching (not comparable)
- That latches.
- 2012 March, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3:
- A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
Noun edit
latching (plural latchings)
- The act of fastening a latch.
- (nautical) A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail.
- (linguistics) The situation where one speaker's utterance immediately follows another speaker's utterance, without pause or overlap.