plating

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Etymology 1

From plate +‎ -ing.

Verb

plating

  1. present participle and gerund of plate

Etymology 2

From Middle English *platynge, from Old English platung (“plate, thin piece of metal”), equivalent to plate +‎ -ing.

Noun

plating (plural platings)

  1. (philately) An act of determining where a postage stamp is positioned on a sheet.
  2. A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.
  3. A coating or defensive armour of metal plates.
    • 1912, J. Bernard Walker, An Unsinkable Titanic, page 105:
      Her fragility and vulnerability lie in the fact that her framework is overlaid with a relatively thin skin of plating, an inch or so in thickness, which, while amply strong to resist the inward pressure of the water, the impact of the seas, and the tensile and compressive stresses due to the motion of the ship in a seaway, etc., is readily fractured by the blow of a collision.
    • 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Marcus Stacker (Pete Stacker), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark:
      The back plating looks vulnerable, light that sucker up!
  4. The presentation of food that is ready to be served.
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