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English
Verb
latching
- present participle and gerund of latch
Adjective
latching (not comparable)
- That latches.
2012 March, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, 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
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.