cladding

Etymology

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

noun

  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.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of clad

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