placing
English
editPronunciation
editVerb
editplacing
- present participle and gerund of place
Noun
editplacing (plural placings)
- The action by which something is placed; placement; positioning.
- 1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 273:
- There are, of course, certain differences of detail; for example, the placing of the safety valves on the boiler barrel behind the dome, which follows the practice in the Riddles 2-8-0 and 2-10-0 locomotives for the Ministry of Supply; but taken all in all, Britannia's boiler has a closer affinity with the Doncaster designs than with any other.
- The condition of being placed.
- The position of a competitor at the end of a race.