cladding

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cladding

  • /ˈklædɪŋ/

Rhymes with -ædɪŋ

Where it comes from

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

noun claddings

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

    Similar: siding

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of clad

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noun an outside building covering

Españolrevestimiento, recubrimiento
Françaisrevêtement
DeutschVerkleidung
Русскийобши́вка obšívka

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@misc{cladding_2026,
  title = {cladding},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cladding},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}